What about them?

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Spruce trees carried in the boats of Samuel Thompson's militia inspired this naval ensign of Massachusetts.

“Mr. President, shall it be said, that after we have established our own independence and freedom, we make slaves of others?’’

Samuel Johnson (1735-1798), of Massachusetts’s District of Maine (as of 1820 the State of Maine), a Revolutionary War brigadier general, on the question of slavery and enactment of the U.S. Constitution, which he opposed because it allowed slavery to continue.

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