Tao Te Ching

“As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union… The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.”

— George Mason 1725 – 1792 CE
First American abolitionist, founding father, and Constitutional savior