Carolina QuotesI tell you the Negro is the bone and sinew of your country and you cannot do without him.
Robert Smalls
Carolinian
Source
Speech on suffrage, South Carolina Constitutional Convention, Columbia, 1895; in Speeches at the Constitutional Convention, compiled by Sarah V. Smalls (Charleston, 1896)
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- Speech on suffrage, South Carolina Constitutional Convention
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- 1895
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