I’m intrigued to find in an intellectual history of George Washington an anecdote suggesting that Samuel Henley, Professor of Moral Philosophy at W&M, might have become skeptical about slavery:



https://books.google.com/books?id=fPhKDgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA232&dq=%22samuel%20henley%22%20slavery&pg=PA232#v=onepage&q=%22samuel%20henley%22%20slavery&f=false<https://books.google.com/books?id=fPhKDgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA232&dq=%22samuel%20henley%22%20slavery&pg=PA232#v=onepage&q="samuel%20henley"%20slavery&f=false>



I’ve worked on Henley in other contexts (investigating what one scholar called his “dark beginnings" in Virginia, with intimations of pederasty and homosexuality), but don’t recall seeing this anecdote before.   If anyone knows more about Henley and slavery, I’d be grateful to hear about it.



Thanks.







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Terry L.. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, Emeritus, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia  23187



http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/



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