he thought they would help in the south, and didn't want slavery to be abolished. In the year of the Constitutional Convention, his home state, CT had over 2,000 slaves.
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William Few owned many slaves. A bill of sale was found from when he bought 70 slaves in 1767.
Numbers of Americans supported slavery, and some loathed slavery.
When Lincoln was elected president in 1860, his views on slavery were already known and included:
John Blair owned slaves himself so he was never against slavery.