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To: Loud Mime

In 1785 Jay and a few close friends, mostly slave owners, founded the New York State Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves (see Minutes of the Manumission Society of New York, v.1, 1785). The Society entered lawsuits on behalf of slaves and organized boycotts. Jay also advocated subsidizing black education. “I consider education to be the soul of the republic,” he wrote to Benjamin Rush in 1785. “I wish to see all unjust and all unnecessary discriminations everywhere abolished, and that the time may soon come when all our inhabitants of every colour and denomination shall be free and equal partakers of our political liberty” (see John Jay to Dr. Benjamin Rush, 3/24/1785, Jay ID #9450). In 1787, he helped found New York’s African Free School, which by December 1788 had fifty-six students and which he continued to support financially (see John Jay to John Murray, Jr., 10/18/1805, Jay ID #9603). By the time the Manumission Society surrendered management to New York City in 1834, the school had educated well over 1,000 students.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/jay/JaySlavery.html


14 posted on 12/08/2009 11:34:41 AM PST by frithguild (Can I drill your head now?)
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To: frithguild

There is only one way back to our precious Constitutional Republic and that way is through Gold Almighty and His laws as described in the Holy Bible.


15 posted on 12/08/2009 1:23:23 PM PST by Paperdoll ( Hunter/Palin or Palin/Hunter 2012)
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To: frithguild
“I consider education to be the soul of the republic,”

I consider indoctrination to be the soul of tyranny

Thanks for the informative and wonderful comments!

16 posted on 12/08/2009 1:42:42 PM PST by Loud Mime (The time to water the tree of liberty approaches...)
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