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¶ Excerpts from Woodrow Wilson's "History of the American People:"

¶ ".....Adventurers swarmed out of the North, as much enemies of the one race as of the other, to cozen, beguile, and use the negroes.....In the villages the negroes were the office holders, men who knew none of the uses of authority, except its insolences."