Carolina QuotesWe are passing through times that will secure for us a higher and nobler celebration. American gold will never secure freedom equal rights and justice to our race. No! before these can come American slavery must be crushed, and its foul stain wiped from the Nation[‘]s escutcheon.
Harriet Jacobs Carolinian
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speech (August 1, 1864)
- form
- speech
- year
- 1864
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