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Quotes from Letter to Robert J. Evans — James Madison

1751–1836 United States

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To be consistent with existing and probably unalterable prejudices in the U. S. the freed blacks ought to be permanently removed beyond the region occupied by or allotted to a White population.

Letter to Robert J. Evans (1819)

If in any instances, wrong has been done by our forefathers to people of one colour, by dispossessing them of their soil, what better atonement is now in our power than that of making what is rightfully acquired a source of justice & of blessings to a people of another colour?

Letter to Robert J. Evans (1819)

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