Letter
Alexander Hamilton to Legislature of New York State, March 13, 1786
New York, March 13, 1786. On this date, H and other memorialists signed a petition to the New York legislature urging the end of the slave trade, “a commerce so repugnant to humanity, and so inconsistent with the liberality and justice which should distinguish a free and enlightened people.”
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Founders Online u2014 Papers of Alexander Hamilton
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