If it is true that white Americans only need a demonstration of the colored man’s capacity for elevation, in order to make them willing to receive him on the same platform of human rights upon which they stand, why has not the intelligence of the Haytians convinced them?
Grimké questions why the achievements of Haitians have not changed white Americans' views on racial equality.
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