They [the slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom—jumped into the waves for freedom—starved for freedom—fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot—and their tyrants have been their historians!

— Lydia Maria Child An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)

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