Evan Squires, AMH2010, Monday-Friday, 10:30 am
John Jay, our nation's first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was an ardent abolitionist. He was so adament about abolition that it even hurt his election chances in upstate New York, where slavery was still practiced in the late 1700s. He made practice of buying young black men as slaves, and freeing them when they were adults. He considered their work during time of enslavement as payment for their freedom. I think it is awesome that the first man to head the Supreme Court was against slavery. I was honestly surprised to find this out; I assumed that an abolitionist would not be able to attain such popularity.
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Keith, Patrick AMH2010
Like you said John Jay did have a lot of political problems. That is however very interesting, something to be proud of.
In my opinion he still got the better deal out of that. How much did a slave cost? He bout them very young, work them till they were adults, so he got ten years labor at the least out of it, just cause he freed them don't make him a good guy.
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