For we must not forget, in dealing with our history as a Nation, that long before the outbreak of the Revolution there had begun on the soil of the colonies, which afterward became the United States, that mixture of races which has been and still is one of the most important features in our history as a people.
Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of racial mixture in American history before the Revolution.
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