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The good missionaries, sent down by Northern Churches, had been zealously laboring at the moral condition of the negroes whom slavery had Christianized.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid discusses the efforts of missionaries from Northern Churches to improve the moral condition of formerly enslaved people.
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