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Buxton had somehow or other supposed that no white American could plead for those in bondage as I had done, and therefore I must be black!
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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Grimké discusses the misconceptions about race and advocacy for abolition, highlighting a misunderstanding by Buxton.
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