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Archibald Henry Grimké: “They failed to moderate or abate Southern opinions, race prejudice and passions and were therefore doomed to fail as an…”

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They failed to moderate or abate Southern opinions, race prejudice and passions and were therefore doomed to fail as an experiment in social and political reconstruction.
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Archibald Henry Grimké

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He asserts that the reconstruction efforts were doomed to fail because they did not address deep-seated racial prejudices.

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