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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

— Benjamin Rush

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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...

Let our assemblies unite in petitioning the king(George) and parliament to dissolve the African committee of merchants: It is by them that the trade is chiefly carried on.

The first step to be taken to put a stop to slavery in this country, is to leave off importing slaves. For this purpose let our assemblies unite in petitioning the king and parliament to dissolve the African company.

It must afford no small pleasure to a benevolent mind in the midst of a war, which daily makes so much havoc with the human species, to reflect, that the small-pox which once proved equally fatal to thousands, has been checked in its career, and in a great degree subdued by the practice of Inoculation.

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