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African Americans Have Their Duty To Help Their Neighbors
No, I do not think that they had the duty to help their neighbors because white people aren’t any better than them, and they could contract the yellow fever just like everybody else even though it was believed that blacks couldn’t contract yellow fever. The Free African Society was just doing it out of the kindness of their hearts they didn’t have to help them they chose to help them. Murphy states, “In reality this wasn’t true. A small number of blacks who had grown up in either Africa or the West Indies had the disease as children and survived” (48).

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