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BUSINESS > businessman, abolitionist > James Forten
Let not the...
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Let not the spirit of the father behold the son robbed of that liberty which he died to establish, but let the motto of our legislature be: The law knows no distinction.
Source: Protesting proposed legislation based on race, A Series of Letters by a Man of Color, 1813.
-- James Forten, (Sep 2 1766-1842), US businessman, abolitionist; He fought in the Revolutionary War; successful Philadelphia businessman and early proponent of the political convention and abolition movements.