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William Wells Brown Quotes: This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.
         

This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.


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All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.



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