“the [approximately 250] large landed [enslavers] were in complete control of the political institutions of [the South in 1850]. Their sway was absolute in the Legislatures. They systematically saw to it that the poor white population [numbered in the millions] should receive no public school #education and deliberately kept it in the densest ignorance. They acted indeed, as if these poor whites were not in existence at all.”
— Herman Schlüter (1913)
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