From the black seeds of their blunder black crops of race hatred and crime and misery have been reaped annually by the South along with those other crops of cotton and rice and sugar and tobacco, and sent like them to all parts of the Republic.
Grimké metaphorically describes the negative outcomes of past mistakes in terms of agricultural production.
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