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Into the violent death of a man like Hamilton there might not be instituted any official inquiry at all in many parts of the South any more than if he had been a horse or a dog.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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Editor's note · Context
Grimké points out the lack of official inquiries into the violent deaths of black men, equating their lives to that of animals.
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