I refer to the Southern policy of civil and political repression and oppression of its colored population in order to keep them within their caste of inferiority and subordination to the whites.
Grimké discusses the Southern policy aimed at maintaining the inferiority of the colored population.
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It is true many a cheek burns with shame in view of our national inconsistency, and many a heart bleeds for the miserable African.
He could not hold his peace; his message he was compelled to deliver in the ears of the nation whether its leaders would hear or forbear.
This sounds singular in this land of the free and it is singular, for of no other class of American labor could it be said that its right to migrate from one state to another is actually obstructed by law and would be resisted by force.
It is a gangrene preying upon our vitals--an earthquake rumbling under our feet--a mine accumulating material for a national catastrophe.