Lee Left

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“...I am an abolitionist for the sake of my own race—Contact with the African degenerates our white race—I find the association with them injurious to my child—keenly as I watch to prevent it & his faithful nurse to help me ... She is a good woman & so are many of them—Still the race is a degraded one ...”
—Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818–?)

“I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don’t talk politics.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)