Abraham Lincoln: Wherever slavery is, it has been first introduced without law. The oldest laws we find concerning it, are not laws intro

Wherever slavery is, it has been first introduced without law. The oldest laws w — Abraham Lincoln

Wherever slavery is, it has been first introduced without law. The oldest laws we find concerning it, are not laws introducing it; but regulating it, as an already existing thing.

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