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The slaves seemed spiritless, where the emancipated negro had only been purposeless.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “The slaves seemed spiritless, where the emancipated negro had only been purposeless.”
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Reid reflects on the contrasting states of enslaved individuals and those who have been emancipated.
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