Mordecai Manuel Noah Answer

11/21/2022

B. Noah was a prominent abolitionist, saying of slavery, “How can Americans be engaged in this traffic [the slave trade], men whose birthright is liberty, whose eminent peculiarity is freedom?”

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D. Noah wrote critical reviews of the plays and performers at New York’s African Grove Theatre, a theater whose company and crew were all Black. Noah demeaned the actors in racist terms and questioned their intelligence, as evidenced by the following quote: “People of colour generally are very imitative, quick in their conceptions and rapid in execution; but it is in the lighter pursuits requiring no intensity of thought or depth of reflection.”

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