Carolina QuotesThe birth of letters was witnessed on the Dark Continent, but centuries of intervening darkness have removed most of the traces of fabled lore, wealth and prowess of the ancient Egyptians, Carthaginians and Ethiopians.
Ida B. Wells Connected to the Carolinas
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- "The Afro-American in Literature" (1892)
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- 1892
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