Francis Kinloch to Jefferson

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This South Carolina planter reacted to Jefferson’s view that “the minds of our citizens may be ripening for a complete emancipation.” In the Carolina low country, slaves vastly outnumbered their masters, who feared that ending slavery would cause bloodshed. Jefferson agreed that hostility between races was a “powerful obstacle” to emancipation.


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