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"The title which is prefixed to the following pages, may perhaps sound singular in the ears of some readers--The Revelation of Rights. The author does not assume this title because he has been gifted with inspiration more than any other man living. The rights and principles, which are herein expressed, are by the Almighty engraven on the hearts of all men. They have been obliterated by custom, prejudice, and false government;--they have been buried in the family vault of tradition. From a wrong habit of thinking, many things are believed to be right, which have been eternally wrong. The author has endeavored, in some measure, to remove the great impediments that have long blocked up the threshhold of truth, in the noblest science of man--the Science of Government. When a man undertakes to combat with custom, with general received and long established opinions, he must expect a warm and strong opposition. He rows against the wind, and stems the tide. Principles, however just, however true, must first become fashionable before they meet with general approbation. Prejudice and custom have covered the breast of man with a plate of steel--the covering must be removed by the hand of reason, and the heart will then exhibit the true characters, which have been engraven upon it by the finger of God"--

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Civil rights -- France -- Colonies --- France -- Colonies -- Administration

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... (title continues) Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Gedney, delivered on the 24th of February and 1st of March, 1841: with a review of the case of the Antelope, reported in the 10th, 11th, and 12th volumes of Wheaton's Reports. Published by Seth Williston Benedict. Reprinted in 1969 by Arno Press, also available on microfilm.

African American history --- Civics --- Civil rights --- Law --- Naval art and science --- Presidents --- Slave rebellions --- Slave trade --- Slavery --- Adams, John Quincy, --- United States. --- Amistad (Schooner) --- Africa