“When in the Curse of American Empire, it becomes necessary for Black People to dissolve the shackles of Oppression, which dissolution hath freed the white, but held the Black People back, and to assume the Blacks’ rightful stations to the rights recognized as entitled to all Humanity, a needless, but decent respect to the opinions of Humankind suggests that we should declare the causes which impel us to our Ascension from America.”

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