A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People (1794)

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This edition is based on the London reprint of Absalom Jones and Richard Allen's A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People (1794). The Philadelphia edition of the same year marks the first time that African Americans claimed federal copyright and also arguably the first piece of African American protest literature.
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