"I have long been convinced in my own mind that the enslaving of Africans brought from Africa or those born in this country is unjust; and it is one of the sins of the land, and I would endeavor to free my estate from the cry of such a sin against it."
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His will, February 3, 1791, quoted in Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale College by Franklin Bowditch Dexter, vol. 1, p. 468
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Jonathan Todd
1713 – 1791
Jonathan Todd (1713 - 1791) was a Congregational minister in East Guilford, Connecticut.
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