"Where slavery exists the republican Theory becomes still more fallacious."
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James Madison, "Vices of the Political System of the United States" (April 1787); Robert A. Rutland, William M. E. Rachal (eds.) The Papers of James Madison, vol. 9 (University of Chicago Press, 1975), pp. 350–51
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Slavery in the United States
Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel slavery that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries after it gained independence and before the end of the American Civil War. Slavery had been introduced and practiced by the British Empire in North America from early colonial days, and was practiced in all the Thirteen Colonies at the time of the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776. After the United States gained its independen
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