Thomas Jefferson — "The commerce of slaves in the West Indies, I am informed, is an open market of h…"
The commerce of slaves in the West Indies, I am informed, is an open market of human flesh, where the unhappy victims are daily exposed to the highest bidder, and where the most sacred ties of nature are torn asunder by the avarice of their unfeeling masters.
— Thomas Jefferson
Early Modern
· US Founding Father, Declaration of Independence
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