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  1. Mar 2018
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    An Appeal to the World!
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    1. ssaunders 03 Mar 2018
      The doctrine of race inferiority was used to convince white labor that they had the right to be free and to vote, while the Negroes must be slaves or depress the wage of whites;

      This reminds me of a short essay by George Lipsitz called 'The Possessive Investment in Whiteness.' It talks about the construct of whiteness and the process of becoming "white" for European immigrants. I would suggest everyone read it.

    2. ssaunders 03 Mar 2018
      which nevertheless even to this day is not complete.

      This was written in '47. I find it disturbing that most documents written to address racial prejudice in the United States, decades ago, are still applicable to this day. You could take this sentence out of context and it could have been written yesterday.

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