Known to Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington, all prominent slaveholders among the founders, _____________ freed all 500 of the African Americans he enslaved; he had come to view slavery as "contrary to the principles of religion and justice."
A) Wade Hampton III
B) Robert Carter III
C) David Rice Atchison
D) William Aiken Jr.
E) Judah P. Benjamin

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Robert Carter III, a contemporary of prominent founding fathers and a significant slaveholder in his own right, initiated one of the largest acts of emancipation in the United States prior to the Civil War. He freed over 500 enslaved individuals through a deed of gift in 1791, motivated by his beliefs in justice and religion.

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