“In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.”

Speech at the Convention of Colored Men, Louisville, Kentucky (24 September 1883).
1880s, Speech at the Convention of Colored Men (1883)

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American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman 1818–1895

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