Excerpt from Genius of Universal Emancipation, Vol. 4: May, 1825 By the law of Nature, all men are entitled to equal privileges; and, ai though the artificial distinctions of soci ety may have abrogated it in practice, they are unable to justify the destruction of a right, which claims for the African that freedom which the express and im plied will of the Almighty has declared to be inherent in every individual of the human race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.