Non-interference is the ominous word which has cast its dark spell over the North and has turned its once warm and active sympathy into cold indifference and cruel apathy.
Archibald Henry Grimké: “Non-interference is the ominous word which has cast its dark spell over the North and has turned its once warm and…”
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Grimké laments the shift from sympathy to indifference in the North regarding the plight of African Americans.
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