Education in self-control, and in respect for constituted authority became impossible where the dominating feeling of the Negroes was one of terror.
Archibald Henry Grimké: “Education in self-control, and in respect for constituted authority became impossible where the dominating feeling of…”
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Grimké argues that fear among African Americans made it impossible for them to learn self-control and respect for authority.
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