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“Now, sir, if this is true, I trust you will take every opportunity to fight against the false ideas so many hold about us. I hope you believe as I do that one Lord has created us all. I trust you believe that he has given us all the same feelings and abilities. We are all of the same family, however different we may look”

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Anti-Discrimination

Step-by-step explanation:

Benjamin's purpose for sending the letter was to challenge Jefferson's racial ideology and to ask for Jefferson's assistance in ending the “the unjustifiable cruelty and barbarism” that was the institution of slavery in America.

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