No. He represented the slave state of Maryland in Congress, and during debate on amending the tax provisions of the Articles of Confederation -- in what became the forerunner to the notorious 3/5 clause in the Constitution -- he offered an even more extreme version: that a slave should be worth 1/4 of a free man. (March 28, 1783)
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