When exploring oppression the African American community was faced with slavery, racism, and no sense of dignity. ... But, he who placed us here, and commanded that we should stay until he willed to call us hence, has enforced his law on one written on our own hearts - a horror of death inwrought into our nature, so that we violate our own sensibilities by disobeying his will, unless, indeed, our feelings have become so distorted and perverted that they are untrue to their original action" (The Lowell Offering p 202). ...

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