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John Ferdinand Smyth Stuart, conocido hasta 1793 como John Ferdinand Smyth y mayormente después de eso como Ferdinand Smyth Stuart, fue un lealista estadounidense nacido en Escocia y médico que afirmó ser un bisnieto del rey Carlos II. Como autor de A Tour in the United States of America (1784), usó el nombre John Ferdinand Dalziel Smyth.
“As to any other laws that slave-holders may make among themselves, as respecting slaves, they can be of no better kind, nor give them any better character, than what is implied in the common report—that there may be some honesty among thieves.”
“The farther and wider that the discovery and knowledge of such an enormous evil, as the base and villainous treatment and slavery which the poor unfortunate Black People meet with, is spread and made known, the cry for justice, even virtue lifting up her voice, must rise the louder and higher, for the scale of equity and justice to be lifted up in their defence.”
“Slavery is an evil of the first magnitude, ... and contrary to all the genuine principles of Christianity, and yet carried on by men denominated thereby.”
“The holders of men in slavery ... cannot otherwise but expect in one day at last, to meet with the full stroke of the long suspended vengeance of heaven, when death will cut them down to a state as mean as that of the most abjected slave, and to a very eminent danger of a far more dreadful fate hereafter, when they have the just reward of their iniquities to meet with.”
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