George Washington Slavery Quotations

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.