A
DISSERTATION
ON
S L A V E R Y:
WITH
A PROPOSAL
FOR THE
GRADUAL ABOLITION OF IT,
IN THE
STATE OF VIRGINIA.
By ST. GEORGE TUCKER,
PROFESSOR OF LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WILLIAM
AND MARY, AND ONE OF THE JUDGES OF THE
GENERAL COURT, IN VIRGINIA.
Slavery not only violates the Laws of Nature, and of civil Society, it also wounds the best Forms of Government: in a Democracy, where all Men are equal, Slavery is contrary to the Spirit of the Constitution. Montesquieu.
PHILADELPHIA:
PRINTED FOR MATHEW CAREY,
No. 118, Market-Street.
1796.
