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*As to his intellectual equality, Cyprian, Augustine, Tertullian, Euclid, and Terence, would pass for specimens of the ancient Negro, exhibiting intellect beyond the ordinary range of modern literati, before the present Anglo-Saxon race had even an origin.*

- Samuel Ringgold Ward, “Autobiography of a fugitive negro”, 1855

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*Nor could I degrade myself by arguing the equality of the Negro with the white ; my private opinion is, that to say the Negro is equal morally to the white man, is to say but very little.*

- Samuel Ringgold Ward, “Autobiography of a fugitive negro”, 1855
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