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Booker T. Washington: “He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1901
He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.
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Booker T. Washington

Editor's note · Context

Considering his unknown white father, he characterizes him as a victim of the pervasive institution of slavery.

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