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REFORMERS > religious leader, activist > Richard Allen
If you love...
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If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or country with them.
Source: How African Americans nursed the population during an 1793 epidemic; in A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, during the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in 1793 with Absalom Jones.
-- 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.