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One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile. There is no villain, no...more

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It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, shrieking to its own kind, and privilege and prope...more

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America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

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They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a p...more