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Archibald Henry Grimké: “And as for civilization it was beaten down by the red hand of violence.”

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And as for civilization it was beaten down by the red hand of violence.
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Archibald Henry Grimké

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Grimké asserts that violence severely undermined the progress of civilization for African Americans.

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