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... slavery , the reconstruction meas- ures , and the vast and unexampled progress of the republic in growth and development since the war , presented a topic worthy of a better historian than I am . Still , as my life was interwoven with ...
... slavery , the reconstruction meas- ures , and the vast and unexampled progress of the republic in growth and development since the war , presented a topic worthy of a better historian than I am . Still , as my life was interwoven with ...
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... slavery in some of the States was the cause of the war , and its abo- lition was the most important result of the war . So great a change naturally led to disorder and violence where slavery had existed , but this condition , it is ...
... slavery in some of the States was the cause of the war , and its abo- lition was the most important result of the war . So great a change naturally led to disorder and violence where slavery had existed , but this condition , it is ...
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... slavery . This preface is hardly necessary , but I comply with the general custom of adding at the beginning , instead of the end , an apology for writing a book . This seems to me to be the chief object of a preface , and I add to it ...
... slavery . This preface is hardly necessary , but I comply with the general custom of adding at the beginning , instead of the end , an apology for writing a book . This seems to me to be the chief object of a preface , and I add to it ...
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... Slavery Question -My Election to Congress in 1854 . CHAPTER IV . EARLY DAYS IN CONGRESS . My First Speech in the House - Struggle for the Possession of Kansas - Ap- pointed as a Member of the Kansas Investigating Committee - The ...
... Slavery Question -My Election to Congress in 1854 . CHAPTER IV . EARLY DAYS IN CONGRESS . My First Speech in the House - Struggle for the Possession of Kansas - Ap- pointed as a Member of the Kansas Investigating Committee - The ...
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... Slavery Question Once More an Issue in Congress - Douglas ' Opposition to the Lecompton Scheme — Turning Point of the Slavery Controversy . PAGES 106-122 CHAPTER VI . RECOLLECTIONS OF THE FINANCIAL PANIC OF 1857 . Its Effect on the ...
... Slavery Question Once More an Issue in Congress - Douglas ' Opposition to the Lecompton Scheme — Turning Point of the Slavery Controversy . PAGES 106-122 CHAPTER VI . RECOLLECTIONS OF THE FINANCIAL PANIC OF 1857 . Its Effect on the ...
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