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  1. Sep 2021
    1. Showing slaves freed earlier than civil war benefited from gifts of society that still give positive results today.

    2. "As it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other," Jefferson wrote a fellow politician almost 30 years after Carter's deed of gift.

      Immoral actions can't justify a peaceful outcome.