It is too busy attending to the more important business relating to the property rights and interests of shippers and capitalists to spare the time to break up an evil which makes the existence of colored interstate passengers an unbroken experience of bitter hardships and humiliations.
Grimké critiques the neglect of the struggles faced by African Americans in the context of governmental priorities.
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