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You are COLORED AMERICANS. The Indians are RED AMERICANS and the white people are WHITE AMERICANS and you are as good as they are, and they are no better than you—God made all of the same blood.

Samuel Cornish

On our conduct, in great measure, their salvation depends. Let us show that we are worthy to be freemen; it will be the strongest appeal to the judgment and conscience of the slaveholder and his abettors, that can be furnished; and it will be a sure measure of our elevation in society, and to the possession of all of our rights, as men and citizens.

Samuel Cornish

Samuel Cornish

Samuel Cornish

Born: 1795

Died: November 6, 1858 (aged 63)

Bio: Samuel Cornish was an American Presbyterian minister, abolitionist, publisher, and journalist. He was a leader in New York City's small free black community, where he organized the first congregation of black Presbyterians in New York.

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