Ninety-five residents of Knoxville are deeply concerned about the "inconsistency of Slavery with republican principles and the natural rights of man." They therefore "lay before you their Sentiments on the Same interesting subject.” They propose that slaves be prevented from entering the state; that slaveholders be permitted to free their slaves by wills without putting up a security bond, while slave traders and others be prohibited from selling family members away from one another; and that "the removal of people of colour, as they become free from our own to a distant continent would be productive of great advantage to the colonists, as well as to the United States."
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