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From Foundation to Turret

Within a quarter of a century the young
colored man has been called to learn? and
to teach, and to found colleges; not only
to learn to read, but to write books, edit newspapers;
he has been called to enter commercial
life, and to compete with those who have
back of them generations of training; he has
been called to make laws, and to exercise
every virtue and walk in every avenue of life


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and in the highest civilization the world has
ever seen. Were ever young men called to
such work before?

The Negro's Way to Liberty.