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Since ejectment is impracticable as involving too huge a displacement of or amputation from the productive labor of the South, isolation remains the only alternative.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “Since ejectment is impracticable as involving too huge a displacement of or amputation from the productive labor of the…”
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Grimké argues that isolation is seen as the only viable solution to the racial issue, given the impracticality of ejectment.
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