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“Those of higher rank were also, they thought, of higher moral standing. One couldn’t get the lowly diseases if one’s morals were right. Except there is that “almost entirely,” acknowledging, passively, that the diseases couldn’t be contained to the lower classes and to people of color; wealthy whites were susceptible, too.”
― Rachel May, An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery