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Taney considered slavery to be an evil practice. He freed the slaves that he inherited from his father early in his life, and as long as they lived, he provided monthly pensions to the older ones who were unable to work. He believed, however, that slavery was a problem to be resolved gradually and chiefly by the states in which it existed, and, as a nationalist, blamed abolitionists for "ripping the country apart". In 1819, nevertheless, Taney defended an abolitionist Methodist minister,

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