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.
Grimké points out the unique legal barriers that restrict the movement of African American laborers compared to other groups in the U.S.
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