Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson

Sir if this is founded in truth, I apprehend you will readily embrace every
opportunity to eradicate that train of absurd and false ideas and opinions
which so generally prevails with respect to us, and that your Sentiments
are concurrent with mine, which are that one universal Father hath given
being to us all, and that he hath not only made us all of one flesh, but
that he hath also without partiality afforded us all the Same Sensations,
and endued us all with the same…