As quoted in Michael Scheuer's Non-Intervention https://archive.is/QBuxT (22 June 2015), by M. Scheuer.
2010s
“Certainly with the enslavement of their parents and grandparents less than seventy years behind them, the odds of successfully utilizing black culture to better refine the application of democracy in America was against them. Yet the planners and participants in this would-be renaissance moved forward with all the faith and visionary certainty of Betsy Ross stitching the American flag or General William T. Sherman blazing a trail of victory through the Civil War South.”
(Author’s Note, p. xvi).
Book Sources, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (2003)
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Source: 'Democracy on its Trial', Quarterly Review, 110, 1861, p. 274
(Author's Note, p. xvii).
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