Carolina QuotesNegro rule under unscrupulous adventurers had been finally put an end to in the South, and the natural, inevitable ascendancy of the whites, the responsible class, established.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
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Division and Reunion, 1829-1889 Longmans, Green, & Company (1893) p. 273
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- 1829
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- p. 273
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