How can the brain, thus cramped and debased from father to son, at one bound, rise to the hight of the Anglo-Saxon mind, which these generations of culture have been broadening and strengthening?
Reid questions the ability of formerly enslaved individuals to achieve the intellectual heights of their white counterparts.
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