Carolina Quotes
Contempt for law is death to a republic, and this one has developed alarming symptoms of the disease.
Charles W. Chesnutt Carolinian
Source
"The Disfranchisement of the Negro," in The Negro Problem (New York: James Pott & Company, 1903)
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- essay
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- The Disfranchisement of the Negro
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- 1903
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