Archibald Henry Grimké: “He has a poorer chance in the South in spite of his increased educational opportunities and accomplishments, and he has…”

This sounds singular in this land of the free and it is singular, for of no other class of American labor could it be said that its right to migrate from one state to another is actually obstructed by law and would be resisted by force.

I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.

It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.

On every hand over against his paper rights as a citizen, the Negro faces facts which make his citizenship seem like a snare and a delusion.