Carolina QuotesWhen colored persons have been employed it was too often as machines or as manikins. There has been no disposition, generally, to get the black man's ideal or to let his individuality work by its own gravity.
Anna J. Cooper Carolinian
Source
p. 37
- work
- A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892)
- year
- 1892
- locator
- p. 37
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