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It was a nefarious institution. It was the curse of heaven on the states where it prevailed.

— Gouverneur Morris Constitutional Convention (1787)

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It is not easy to be wise for all times, not event for the present much less for the future; and those who judge the past must recollect that, when it was the present the present was future

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