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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. |
Declaration of Independence – Thomas Jefferson
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having enumerated the mercies of God to our nation, it bewoes us to ask, what shall we render unto the lord for them? Sarcrifces and burnt offerings are no longer pleasing to him: the pomp of public workship and the ceremonies of a festive day will find no acceptance with him, unless they are inculcated upon us, by the event we are now celebrating, divide themselves into 5 heads
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Absalom jones
a thanksgiving sermon |
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We pray, o God for all our friends and benefactorsin Great Britain as well as in the United states: reward them, we bessech thee with blessings upon earth, and prepare them to enjoy the fruits of their kindness to us in the everlasing kingdon i heaven; and dispose us who are assemble in thy presence to be always thankful for thy mercies and to act assembled in thy presence to be always thakful for thy mericies and to act as becomes people who owe so much to thy goodness
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Absalom jones
a thanksgiving sermon |
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i shall now attempt to shew you that is our duty to sympathise with our fellow men under their troubles the faimlies of our brethren who am gone we hope to the grand lodge above , here to return no more. but the cheerfulness that you have even had to relieve them, and ease their burdens under their forrows, will never be forgotten by them; and in this manner you will never be weary in doing good.
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Prince Hall
Pray God give us the strength to bear up under all our troubles |
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The great law-giver moses who instucted by this father-in-law Jethro and Ethiopean, how to regulatehis courths of justice.....
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Prince Hall
Pray God give us the strength to bear up under all our troubles |
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Although you are deprived of the means of ecuation yet you are not deprived of the means of meditation; by which i mean thinking, hearing and weighing matters, men and things in your won mind and making that judgement of them as you think resonable to satify your minds and give an anser to those who may ask you a question.
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Prince Hall
Pray God give us the strength to bear up under all our troubles |
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“The festivities of this day serve but to impress upon the minds of reflecting men of colour a deeper sense of cruelty, the injustice, ad oppression, of which they have been the victims.
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Slavery and colonization
Peter williams jr |
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The rights of men are decided by the colour of their skin; and there is as much difference made between the rights of a free white man and a free coloured man as there is between a free coloured man and a slave
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Slavery and colonization
Peter williams jr |
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we are natives of thsi country we ask only to be treated as well as foreigners. Not as few of our fathers sufferedand bled to purchase its independece we ask only to be treated as well as those who fought against it. we hav toiled to cultivate it and to raise it to its present prosperous conditon' we ask only the furits of our labor
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Slavery and colonization
Peter williams jr |
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Stan is an inventive genius. He often appears under th garb of an angel of light, and makes religion and patriotism his plea for the execution of his designs. Our Lord foretold His disciples that "the time comethin when whosoever killeth you will think that he doesth God service" Bretheren the time is already come `when many thing that whosoever casueth us to remove from our native home does service to his country and to God.
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Slavery and colonization
Peter williams jr |
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You have convened to take into consideration what may be the best means of the promotion of the best interest of the people of thses United states particulary of the free people thereof. And that such convention ishilgy nessary, i thinka few considerations will amply show
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Why a convention is neccesary
William Hamilton |
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You cannot but percieve that i allude to the Colonization Socity. However pure the motives of some of the mebers of that society maybe yet the master spirtis theoro are evil-minded toward us. They have put on the garg of angels of light. fold back their covering and you have in full array those of darkness.
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Why a convention is neccesary
William Hamilton |
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Slavery has fixed a deep gulf between you and use, and while it shuts out from you the relief and consolation which your friends would willingly renderm it afflicts and persecutes you with a fierceness which we might not expect to see in the fiends of hell. But still the almighty father of mercies has left us a glimmering ray of hope, which shines out like a lone star in a cloudy sky.
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an address to the slaves of the United sates of America
Hery Garnet |
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Let your motto be Resistance! Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance. What kind of ressitance you had better make you must decide by the circumstances that surround you… labor for the peace of the peace of the human race, and remember that you are three mllions!
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an address to the slaves of the United sates of America
Henry Garnet |
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If I wish to stand up and say, “I am a man” I must leave the land that gave me birt. If I wish to ask protection as a man, I must leave the American stars and stripes. Wherever the stars and stripes are seen flying upon American soil, I can receive no protection, I am a slave, a chattel, a thing. I see your liberty poles around in your cities.
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under the stars and stripes
william wells brown |
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Could we trace the record of every human heart…it existed in the mind of Deity when he hung the first world upon its orbit and gave it liberty to gather light from the central sun.
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Frances Ellen watkins
Liberty for slaves |
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“The general sentiment of mankind is that a manw ho will not fight for himself, when he has the mean sof doing so, is not worth being fought for by others, and this sentiment is just.
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Frederick douglass
If there is no struggle no progress |
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I owe my freedom to the God who made me, and who stirred me to claim it against all other beings in God’s universe. I will not, nor will I consent, that anybody else shall countenance the claims of a vulgar despot to my soul and body….I have long since resolved to do nothing and suffer
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Charles Langston
I wont obey this fugtive slave law |
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Whatever may be your decision…I don’t respect this law.. I don’t fear it. I wont obey it! It outlaws me! And I outlaw it and the men who attempt to enforce it on me.
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Charles Langston
I wont obey this fugtive slave law |
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The law under which I am arraigned is an unjust one, one made to crush the colored man and one that outrages every feeling of humanity, as well as every rule of right. I have nothing to do with its constitutionality about that I care but little. I have often heard it said by learned and good men that it was unconstitutional; I remember the excitement that prevailed throughout…”
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Should colored men be subject
charles langston |
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There is not a spot in this wide country not even by the altars of god…Let me stand in that hall and tell a US marshal that my father was a revolutionary soldier…”
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Should colored men be subject
charles langston |
