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African Americans on Slavery
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Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson, letters of August 1791
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Memorial of [Free-Men of Colour] to the South Carolina Senate, 1791
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Banneker to Jefferson:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h71t.html
Jefferson's response:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h72t.html
Memorial:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h70t.html
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Africans in America
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Banneker's letter
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: Memorial to the South Carolina Senate
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