I would like to understand what does the below sentence mean (highlighted in brow color).
It is from OG-11, RC Section Page 390, 3rd para. You would have to look up the book to know what the passage is about. I can't type the whole passage here
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The lectures were soon published as a book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Ten years later, in a perface to the second revised edition, Woodward confessed with ironic modesty that the first edition "had begun to suffer under some of the handicaps that might be expected in a history of the American Reviolution published in 1776."
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It is from OG-11, RC Section Page 390, 3rd para. You would have to look up the book to know what the passage is about. I can't type the whole passage here
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The lectures were soon published as a book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Ten years later, in a perface to the second revised edition, Woodward confessed with ironic modesty that the first edition "had begun to suffer under some of the handicaps that might be expected in a history of the American Reviolution published in 1776."
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