Noah Webster condemned slavery but counseled against active abolitionism

Evidence

I was fascinated to learn Noah Webster was an abolitionist with lackluster convictions, describing slavery as an evil sin. In an 1837 letter he cautioned his daughter Eliza not to become too involved. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 216

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• SHARE: A nice irony worth sending to someone interested in American intellectual history: the man whose speller empowered enslaved literacy was himself a lukewarm abolitionist.