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For it furnished for two and a half centuries both his social heredity and his environment, and so shaped his growth and character along moral, religious and industrial lines.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “For it furnished for two and a half centuries both his social heredity and his environment, and so shaped his growth and…”
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He discusses how slavery influenced the social and moral development of African Americans over centuries.
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On every hand over against his paper rights as a citizen, the Negro faces facts which make his citizenship seem like a snare and a delusion.
Sirs, I am not come to tell you that slavery is a curse, debasing in its effects, cruel in its operations, fatal in its continuance.
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