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Even in the matter of enforcing its own laws and co-operating with the civilized world, a lethargy seized the country, and it did not awake until slavery was about to destroy it.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois critiques the nation's lethargy in enforcing laws against slavery until it became a dire threat.
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