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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>
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 and Legacy==
William Few died in Fishkill, [[New York]] on July 16, 1828. He was buried in Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery in Beacon, New York.
William Few died in Fishkill, [[New York]] on July 16, 1828. He was buried in Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery in Beacon, New York.
According to James Marshall, "He was one of those men, 'few and far between,' who effect more by solid weight of character than many can by eloquent speech or restless action".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cMhJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA188 The United States Manual of Biography and History: To which is Prefixed An Introductory History of the United States]</ref>
==References==
==References==