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Archibald Henry Grimké: “Judged by his rights on paper his citizenship is indisputable, but judged by his rights in fact it is full of…”

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Judged by his rights on paper his citizenship is indisputable, but judged by his rights in fact it is full of mutilations and amputations which disfigure it almost beyond recognition.
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Archibald Henry Grimké

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Grimké discusses the contrast between the theoretical rights of African Americans and their actual experiences of oppression.

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