Portrait of William Jay

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Title: Portrait of William Jay
Description: Portrait of William Jay
Bibliographic Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jay_%28jurist%29#/media/File:William_Jay_by_Wenzler.jpg
Bibliographic Citation Republished: Bayard Tuckerman, William Jay, and the constitutional movement for the abolition of slavery (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1894), p. 134
Type: image
Language: English
Rights: Public Domain
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jay_%28jurist%29#/media/File:William_Jay_by_Wenzler.jpg
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Related Transcription: unionist--text-0143
Caption: William Jay (1789-1858) was a noted legal thinker, the son of the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Jay. His letter to Samuel J. May concerning the constitutional questions of Black citizenship presaged his important 1835 treatise, An Inquiry into the Character and Tendency of the American Colonization and American Anti-Slavery Societies