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In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.”
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Reid reflects on the intense animosity felt towards freedmen in the post-Civil War South.
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