This sounds amazing and it is amazing because it fits the Negro's case so exactly, because it is an accurate description of his condition as an agricultural laborer in many of the Southern states.
Archibald Henry Grimké: “This sounds amazing and it is amazing because it fits the Negro's case so exactly, because it is an accurate description…”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké asserts that the plight of the Negro laborer in the South is accurately described by the systemic inequalities they face.
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And politics is business, is the big business is it not, or ought it not to be the big business of all self governing peoples, who would maintain justice and freedom for themselves and transmit them unimpaired to their posterity?
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