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Absalom Jones: Petition to Congress on the Fugitive Slave Act

Absalom Jones: Petition to Congress on the Fugitive Slave Act

by Craig Smith | May 2, 2022

The American Revolution provided a false hope for those of enslaved men and women. The author of the constitution, Thomas Jefferson, had wrote about the communal agreement of liberty and justice for all. In these words, many implications fell victim to the lack of...

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