"I ask that every colored man in the North who has a vote to cast would cast that vote for the regular Republican Party and thus bury the Democratic Party so deep that there will not be seen even a bubble coming from the spot where the burial took place"
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Businesspeople from the United StatesSlavesPoliticians from South CarolinaAfrican AmericansPublishers from the United States
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September 12, 1912 Letter, expressing concerns over the Presidential election
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Robert Smalls
Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915), born into slavery, was an American businessman, publisher, and politician.
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