Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. (Robert Charles Winthrop)

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

Robert Charles Winthrop

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