"Their right, like that of their white fellow-citizens, dates back to the dread arbitrament of war. Their bones whiten every stricken field of the Revolution; their feet tracked with blood the snows of Jersey; their toil built up every fortification south of the Potomac; they shared the famine and nakedness of Valley Forge, and the pestilential horrors of the old Jersey prison ship."
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Quoted in The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, by William Cooper Nell, p. 339. (1855)
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John Greenleaf Whittier
1807 – 1892
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