Whitelaw Reid: “I am willing, therefore, to pay the negroes one-third higher wages…”

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I am willing, therefore, to pay the negroes one-third higher wages than any white laborers accessible to us.

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid states his willingness to pay higher wages to African American laborers than to white laborers.

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