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If it come at all, it must come—as it has not yet, to some of the most cultivated peoples in the world—with the education and aspirations of comparative freedom.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Editor's note · Context
Reid posits that true progress for the freed slaves will come through education and aspirations for freedom, rather than through violence.
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