Archibald Henry Grimké: “For members of an inferior caste would by the force of circumstances, law, or no law, be deprived of certain rights…”

To my apprehension, the subject of slavery involves interests of greater moment to our welfare as a republic, and demands a more prudent and minute investigation than any other which has come before the American people since the…

But ignorance is a breeder of crime just as poverty is.

During those dark years the blacks were much more sinned against than sinning.

The South does not regard the Negro laborer then as undesirable but quite the contrary--only it wants to retain possession of it on its own terms, not on those advantageous to that labor.