"The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you..." - Quote by George Washington
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work.
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“How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language!”
“Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.”
“Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.”
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“If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.”
“Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.”
“Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.”