I am less amazed at these evils, than by the rapidity with which they are subsiding and not more astonished at the facility with which the former slave has become a free man, than at the rapid adjustment of the master-class to the new situation.
From his autobiography, expressing his surprise at the speed with which both former slaves and masters adapted to the post-emancipation era.
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