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Next it appears dampening generous enthusiasm in what we once counted glorious; to free the slave is discovered to be tolerable only in so far as it freed his master!
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Editor's note · Context
Du Bois highlights the irony that the emancipation of slaves is often viewed through the lens of benefiting their former masters.
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