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Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character. ✨ James Madison (1865). Letters and other writings of James Madison, p.60
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Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character. ✨ James Madison (1865). Letters and other writings of James Madison, p.60

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