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Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

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I wonder that every colored person is not a misanthrope. Surely we have everything to make us hate mankind.

Source: Journal of Charlotte Forten, 1953.
-- Charlotte Forten Grimke, (Aug 17 1837-1914), US educator, diarist; She became the first black teacher to ex-slaves and began her bequest to humanity, a detailed journal of the Civil War era, published in 1953.


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