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Amid such evil conditions ignorance necessarily abounded and moral degradation deposited its slime, generation after generation, over the souls of masters and slaves alike.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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Grimké argues that the conditions of slavery led to widespread ignorance and moral degradation across generations.
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