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“If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.”

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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.

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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions…

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