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But were he to seduce a colored man's daughter or wife the case would be wholly different.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgBut were he to seduce a colored man's daughter or wife the case would be wholly different.
He contrasts the societal consequences for white men versus those for white men towards Black women.
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The difference between this motto of the Liberator and that of the Free Press: Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country--measures the greatness of the revolution which had taken place in the young editor.
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.
My friends were prodigal of pity, but of nothing else.
Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.