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As Freedom stamped her foot, black armies sprang from the ground.
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This quote illustrates the powerful emergence of black soldiers during the fight for freedom.
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Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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