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O, ye nominal Christians! Might not an African ask you Learned you this from your God, who says unto you, Do unto all men as you would have them do unto you?The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

By Nature’s self in white array’d,She bade thee shun the vulgar eye,And planted here the guardian shade,And sent soft waters murmuring by;   Thus quietly thy summer goes,   Thy days declining to repose. The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

In his letter to Ezra Stiles in which Franklin, near death, writes: “. . . it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. What is the question, the “it” to which he is referring?

He helped Thomas Paine be released from a French prison where he was imprisoned for protesting the execution of King Louis the XIV. 

Olaudah Equianos text is important for many reasons. One of these reasons is that

Thomas Paine

Of Joel Barlow’s epic poem “The Vision of Columbus,” George Washington reportedly said,

It will be very agreeable to me; indeed, nothing has ever hurt me so much, and affected me with such keen sensations, as to find myself deserted in my old age by my only son; and not only deserted, but to find him taking up arms against me in a cause wherein my good fame, fortune, and life were all at stake. You conceived, you say, that your duty to your king and regard for your country required this. I ought not to blame you for differing in sentiment with me in public affairs. We are men, all subject to errors.The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

I shudder when I recollect that the birds had already picked out his eyes, his cheek bones were bare; his arms had been attacked in several places, and his body seemed covered with a multitude of wounds. From the edges of the hollow sockets and from the lacerations with which he was disfgured, the blood slowly dropped, and tinged the ground beneath. No sooner were the birds flown, than swarms of insects covered the whole body of this unfortunate wretch, eager to feed on his mangled Àesh and to drink his blood. The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

This writer had “a “natural gift for pamphelteering and rebellion” and was “appropriately born into an age of rebellion.” He once asserted, “My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”  This writer is none other than