Question
Can you please elaborate the following:
We intend by a simple representation of facts to lay our case before the public...to shield ourselves against the consequent evils...our race alone are to remain in this state,while knowledgeabd civilizations are shredding their enlivening rays over the rest of the human family?"
We intend by a simple representation of facts to lay our case before the public...to shield ourselves against the consequent evils...our race alone are to remain in this state,while knowledgeabd civilizations are shredding their enlivening rays over the rest of the human family?"
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Ms. Sue
What is the context of this sentence? Who wrote it?
Anonymous
It is the opening editorial in Freedom's Journal (1827), an African American newspaper published in New York.
Ms. Sue
Ohh! That helps! Thanks.
The author says he's going to write the facts. He wants to protect himself and other blacks from bad things. These bad things (injustices) are happening only to blacks -- at the time that other civilizations are giving more freedoms and justice to whites.
The author says he's going to write the facts. He wants to protect himself and other blacks from bad things. These bad things (injustices) are happening only to blacks -- at the time that other civilizations are giving more freedoms and justice to whites.