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This is true today whatever might have been possible in this regard immediately after the overthrow of the Southern Confederacy.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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He reflects on the enduring relevance of his observations regarding the challenges faced by African Americans post-Civil War.
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No body of men on the face of the earth deserve their charities, and prayers, and united assistance so much as the slaves of this country; and yet they are almost entirely neglected.
I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.
It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.
This sounds singular in this land of the free and it is singular, for of no other class of American labor could it be said that its right to migrate from one state to another is actually obstructed by law and would be resisted by force.