Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, Reminiscences of the Civil War, with Special Reference to the Work for the Contrabands and Freedmen of the Quotes

“The question had been complicated by the advocacy of some good men, who saw in the separation of the white and black races in the schools of the Nation a dangerous tendency toward the creation of class distinctions in our American life. It was the expression of a theory of equality right in itself, but which it would have been fatal at that moment to enforce.”
― John Eaton, Grant, Lincoln, and the Freedmen: Reminiscences of the Civil War