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Archibald Henry Grimké: Inequality became thus the chief corner stone of the new Southern edifice.

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Inequality became thus the chief corner stone of the new Southern edifice.
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Archibald Henry Grimké

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He identifies inequality as a foundational principle of the new Southern society post-Civil War.

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