They set in motion instead the forces and passions which have at length wrested the ballot from the Negro.
Archibald Henry Grimké: “They set in motion instead the forces and passions which have at length wrested the ballot from the Negro.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké discusses the consequences of the old master class's failures in relation to African American voting rights.
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