This purchase is a business which violates religion, morality, natural law, and all human rights. There is not one of those unfortunate souls … slaves … who does not have the right to be declared free, since in truth he has never lost his freedom; and he could not lose it, since it was impossible for him to lose it; and neither his prince, nor his father, nor anyone else had the right to dispose of it.
~ Louis de Jaucourt (1765)
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