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He set out to shame that baneful narrative.

“I believe,” concluded Scott, “if Congress should at any time be of the opinion that a state of slavery was a quality inadmissible in America, they would not be barred...of prohibiting this baneful quality.”

The impact these soldiers had on the South was baneful.

Washington sternly warned against the “baneful effects of the spirit of party” in his farewell address.

Ferguson’s “baneful effects lasted longer than any other civil rights decision in American history.”