"The time is now near at hand which most probably will determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have property they can call their own; whether their houses or farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human effort will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of the people."

— George Washington’s address to the Continental Army before the battle of Long Island. Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1776.

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