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I think abundant evidence may be found... to convince the most prejudiced against the colored man, that he is by no means so sadly degraded and miserably poor as the public have generally been led to suppose from all that has been said of him.

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Nobody insults a colored man or woman in the Tax Receiver's Office, however full it may be.

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Born: October 7, 1821
Died: July 14, 1902 (aged 80)
Bio: William Still was an African-American abolitionist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, conductor on the Underground Railroad, businessman, writer, historian and civil rights activist.

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