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This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and the gospel is free.

Source: Freedom's Journal, 2 Nov 1827.
-- Richard Allen, (Feb 14 1760-1831), US religious leader, activist; He was a leader of free Blacks who opposed the resettlement of free blacks to Africa; first bishop of the Africa Methodist Episcopal Church.

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