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Poverty and experience were teaching the child what he never could have learned in a grammar-school, a certain acquaintance with himself and the world around him.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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Grimké reflects on the valuable life lessons learned through hardship rather than formal education.
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Sirs, I am not come to tell you that slavery is a curse, debasing in its effects, cruel in its operations, fatal in its continuance.
It should make this a day of fasting and prayer, not of boisterous merriment and idle pageantry--a day of great lamentation, not of congratulatory joy.
Our garb should be sack-cloth--our heads bowed in the dust--our supplications for the pardon and assistance of Heaven.
Pray, sir, is it a careful desire to fulfill the Scriptures, or to make money, that induces you to hold your fellow-men in bondage?