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TIYO SOGA

Africa was God given to the race of Ham. I find the Negro from the days of the old Assyrians downwards, keeping his 'individuality' and 'distinctiveness', amid the wreck of empires, and the revolution of ages. . . I find him enslaved. . . I find him in this condition for many a day - in the West Indian Islands, in Northern and Southern America, and in the South American Colonies of Spain and Portugal. Until the Negro is doomed against all history and experience - until his God-given inheritance of Africa be taken finally from him, I shall never believe in the total extinction of his brethren along the southern limits of the land of Ham.

- Tiyo Soga, "What Is The Destiny Of The Kaffir Race", King William's Town Gazette and Kaffrarian Banner, May 11, 1865

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