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The colored population of the United States have no destiny separate from that of the nation of which they form an integral part. Our destiny is bound up with that of America. Her ship is ours; her pilot ours; her storms ours; her calms are ours. If she breaks upon any rock, we break with her.

James W.C. Pennington

James W.C. Pennington

James W.C. Pennington

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Born: 1809

Died: 1870 (aged 61)

Bio: James William Charles Pennington was an African-American orator, minister, writer, and abolitionist active in Brooklyn, New York. He escaped at the age of 19 from slavery in western Maryland and reached New York.

Known for:

The Fugitive Blacksmith (1849)

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