Talk:Free African Society

early leaders

"Other leaders, all free blacks, were Samuel Baston, Joseph Johnson, Cato Freedman, Caesar Cranchell, James Potter and William White."

I couldn't find much info on these folks. However, I also couldn't find any quote that they were all free blacks. I'm wondering if general-then-lieutenant-governor James Potter and episcol-bishop-at-the-constitutional-convention William White are the same historical figures, as the Potter & White mentioned in the founding documents of the Free African Society. If so, we should wikilink them in, and then update those other articles to mention the FAS, per WP:NOTEWORTHY. Anybody have deeper knowledge about this subject? 74.192.84.101 (talk) 11:09, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

copyright status of preamble

The section on the preamble looks like it was copied from the PBS website. Usually that would be a WP:COPYVIO and subject to instant deletion. However....

1. PBS is owned by the feds and thus it seems plausible their works would thus be in the public domain
2. the contents of the original preamble-and-articles document were written in 1787 and thus are long out of copyright

Are these correct reasoning for an exception? And if so, should we keep the full text in the article here? Or just link to it? I put a copy into archive.is (just in case PBS takes it down someday). 74.192.84.101 (talk) 11:09, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

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