On the record
The alternative thus offered the nation was not between full and restricted Negro suffrage; else every sensible man, black and white, would easily have chosen the latter.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Editor's note · Context
This passage clarifies that the debate was not merely about the extent of suffrage but rather about the fundamental choice between freedom and oppression.
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