The trouble is not that the colored people of the South are indolent, but that no matter how hard or how persistent may be their industry, they get barely enough for their labor to support life at the very low point at which we find them.
He explains that the struggle of colored workers is not due to laziness but rather insufficient compensation for their hard work.
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Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.
For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.
The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.