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Archibald Henry Grimké: “The sound of their childlike joy was heard in the land amid the grim desolations of war and the sullen faces of their…”

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The sound of their childlike joy was heard in the land amid the grim desolations of war and the sullen faces of their old masters.
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Archibald Henry Grimké

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Grimké captures the joy of freedmen amidst the harsh realities of their past and present.

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