On the record
That is what the whites did to educate the blacks during the most impressionable period of their new freedom in orderly government and in civilization.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “That is what the whites did to educate the blacks during the most impressionable period of their new freedom in orderly…”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké critiques the historical education provided to Black individuals in the post-Civil War era.
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