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Liberty is the word for me, above all, Liberty.

David Ruggles

Every man that can read and has sense sufficient to put two ideas together without losing one, knows what the abolitionists mean when they speak of elevating us "according to our equal rights." But why is it that it seems to you so "repugnant" to marry your sons and daughters to colored persons?

David Ruggles

A man is sometimes lost in the dust of his own raising.

David Ruggles

David Ruggles

David Ruggles

Born: March 15, 1810

Died: December 16, 1849 (aged 39)

Bio: David Ruggles was an African-American abolitionist in Manhattan, New York who resisted slavery by his participation in a Committee of Vigilance and the Underground Railroad to aid fugitive slaves reach free states.

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