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What do you think James Forten hoped to gain by fighting to uphold the American principles of freedom?

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For a man like James Forten, who is already free, he sees the cause of independence as a way of furthering the cause of the people of his race to push beyond what was being promised and really fight for freedom for African Americans throughout the American nation.

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