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The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois
Born: Feb 23, 1868
Died: Aug 27, 1963

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Starvation, Negroes, System, Systematic, Deliberately, Cruel, South, Oppressive, Did, Mean, Slavery

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Dale Carnegie, Denis Waitley, Dr. Seuss, Elbert Hubbard, H. L. Mencken, Napoleon Hill, Ray Bradbury, William Arthur Ward

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