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==Views on Slavery==
 
==Views on Slavery==
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Few was a staunch opponent of slavery.  In a letter to Edward Telfair in 1804, he wrote: "every consideration of justice, humanity, and safety, forbids that any more Negroes should be brought into your state....... and in violation of law and every principle of policy and expediency they are carrying on that diabolical and injurious traffic, and hastening those evils in their nature most dreadful, which seems to demand every exertion to retard or prevent it."<ref>[http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook_print.cfm?smtid=3&psid=234 ]</ref>
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Few was a staunch opponent of slavery.  In a letter to Edward Telfair in 1804, he wrote: "every consideration of justice, humanity, and safety, forbids that any more Negroes should be brought into your state....... and in violation of law and every principle of policy and expediency they are carrying on that diabolical and injurious traffic, and hastening those evils in their nature most dreadful, which seems to demand every exertion to retard or prevent it."<ref>[http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook_print.cfm?smtid=3&psid=234 Slavery in the Early Republic]</ref>
    
==Death==
 
==Death==
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==References==
 
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