An anonymous writer, thought by some to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine" id="mwWw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_States" id="mwXA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Abolitionism in the United States">emancipation</a> of slaves and the abolition of slavery.<sup about="#mwt59" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_8#cite_note-9" id="mwXQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwXg">[9]</span></a></sup>
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