On the record
The restrictions which keep it from the slave will keep it from the whites, excepting, always, the few who live at the top.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgThe restrictions which keep it from the slave will keep it from the whites, excepting, always, the few who live at the top.
Beecher warns that the same restrictions preventing education for slaves also affect poor whites.
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It is not a permission of law; it is the inherent right of the individual.
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