Archibald Henry Grimké: “It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.”

Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?

This sounds amazing and it is amazing because it fits the Negro's case so exactly, because it is an accurate description of his condition as an agricultural laborer in many of the Southern states.

And in this moral mud there bred apace bestiality and cruelty, superstition and sensuality, tyranny and fear--the black brood of man's inhumanity to man.

My friends were prodigal of pity, but of nothing else.