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Freedom without Equality
2015
Overview
In a letter concerning the Missouri Compromise that he wrote to the American politician John Holmes from Monticello on April 22, 1820, Thomas Jefferson famously described the dilemma of slavery in the United States in the following terms: “We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.”¹ Even though the country had won its independence from Britain forty-four years earlier, slavery loomed as an issue that threatened to tear the United States apart, had it not been for the stopgap measure
