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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
Wendell Willkie
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Wendell Willkie
Age: 52 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 18
Died: 1944
Died: October 8
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