... Thomas Jefferson's words that "all men are created equal" as including the African American population in the Untied States. It took the voices of David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, and Frederick Douglass to make the rightful claim of total racial equality part of the national debate on slavery. The ten-day National Negro Convention began in Philadelphia on September 15, 1830 ... because whites believed Blacks should still be treated as inferiors. White southerners deeply resented former slaves who imagined they had the same rights as whites. Led by ex-confederates like Nathan Bedford...

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