On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
The teachers in these institutions came not to keep the Negroes in their place, but to raise them out of the defilement of the places where slavery had wallowed them.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Editor's note · Context
This passage explains the transformative mission of educators from New England who sought to uplift Black people from the degradation of slavery.
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