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The blacks during these years were crushed between two irreconcilable forces, two antagonistic governments which were locked in a death grapple for possession of that section.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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Grimké describes the oppressive conditions faced by African Americans caught between two conflicting powers.
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When he had ceased speaking I said to those around me: 'That is a providential man; he is a prophet; he will shake our nation to its center, but he will shake slavery out of it.
Under it we have the double moral standard and the double legal standard operating throughout that section with a vengeance.
He could not hold his peace; his message he was compelled to deliver in the ears of the nation whether its leaders would hear or forbear.
Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.