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The real political issue is, not whether the black man's slavery shall be perpetuated, but whether the freedom of any Americans can be permanent.
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Justice, even-handed justice, for the Negro—that which, according to American profession, is every man's birthright—that I claimed, nothing less.
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Samuel Ringgold Ward
Born:
October 17, 1817
Died:
1866
(aged 48)
Bio:
Samuel Ringgold Ward was an African American who escaped enslavement to become an abolitionist, newspaper editor and Congregational minister.
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