Of course, they’ll fail; we have no uneasiness on that score; but we are the friends of these people, and we are sorry to see them expose themselves to so much misery in making attempts that we know from the outset must be abortive.
Reid discusses the perceived futility of certain attempts by freed individuals to change their social status.
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