Past Voices – The Destiny of the People of Color by James McCune Smith (1813-1865)

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james mccune smithThe Destiny of the People of Color, is part of a larger collection of the works of James McCune Smith, black intellectual and abolitionist, edited by John Stauffer.  There are three essays presented here, Lecture on the Haitian Revolution (1841), pages 25-47, The Destiny of the People of Color (1843), pages 48-60, and Freedom and Slavery for African-Americans (1844), 61-62.

Read the essays here.

A short biography here.