 | Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - History - 1998 - 952 pages
...profess to be anxious for it should lay aside their prejudices and act towards them as they do by others. We are NATIVES of this country, we ask only to be...requests be granted, and we need not go to Africa nor anywhere else to be improved and happy. We cannot but doubt the purity of the motives of those persons... | |
 | William Cooper Nell - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 772 pages
...suffered and bled to purchase its independence. We ask only to be treated as well as those who have fought against it. We have toiled to cultivate it,...come from distant lands to enjoy the fruits of our labor.' From early childhood I have loved to visit the Eastern wing of the State House, and read from... | |
 | Josh Gottheimer - History - 2003 - 576 pages
...treated as well as foreigners. Not a few of our fathers suffered and bled to purchase its independence;we ask only to be treated as well as those who fought...requests be granted, and we need not go to Africa nor anywhere else to be improved and happy. We cannot but doubt the purity of the motives of those persons... | |
 | Richard S Newman - History - 2008 - 565 pages
...of this country. . . . not a few of our fathers suffered and bled to purchase its independence. ... we have toiled to cultivate it, and to raise it to...come from distant lands to enjoy the fruits of our labor."64 Antebellum black activists uttered versions of this famous motto too. Citing James Forten,... | |
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We are NATIVES of this country, we ask only to be treated as well as FOREIGNERS. Not a few of our fathers suffered and bled to purchase its independence; we ask only to be treated as well as those who fought against it. We have toiled to cultivate it,... 
