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The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.”
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Reid asserts that the question of whether former slaves can be self-supporting has been definitively answered in the affirmative.
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