Famous Quotes | In every naked negro of those...

In every naked negro of those thousands, they saw a future customer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Address Delivered in Concord on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies, August 1, 1884,” Miscellanies (1883, repr. 1903). Emerson reveals the vested interests of some abolitionists.

Categories: Business And Commerce, Essayist, Philosopher, Slavery

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