On the record
Everywhere the treatment of the Negro is the same, and everywhere the purpose of the South is plain.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “Everywhere the treatment of the Negro is the same, and everywhere the purpose of the South is plain.”
Editor's note · Context
He asserts that the treatment of Black individuals is uniformly oppressive across the South.
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