On the record
No man could fail to observe that the poor negroes were making much more earnest efforts to rise than the poor whites.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “No man could fail to observe that the poor negroes were making much more earnest efforts to rise than the poor whites.”
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Reid observes the determination of poor African Americans to improve their circumstances compared to poor whites.
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