The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American Contest |
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... considerably more than five persons capable of taking part in the business of civilized life in the former for one in ... considerable ex- tent , and doubtless raises the average of the whole country above what a purely servile régime ...
... considerably more than five persons capable of taking part in the business of civilized life in the former for one in ... considerable ex- tent , and doubtless raises the average of the whole country above what a purely servile régime ...
Page 131
... considerable party in the United States , could not properly be included in a sketch of which the object was to trace the workings of those parties . The effort stood apart from the combination of agencies which were working towards the ...
... considerable party in the United States , could not properly be included in a sketch of which the object was to trace the workings of those parties . The effort stood apart from the combination of agencies which were working towards the ...
Page 134
... considerable curtailment of the present area of the Slave States . Extensive districts included in this area cannot in any correct sense be said to be settled at all ; and others are settled under freedom . The latter observa- tion ...
... considerable curtailment of the present area of the Slave States . Extensive districts included in this area cannot in any correct sense be said to be settled at all ; and others are settled under freedom . The latter observa- tion ...
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African slave trade aggressive agriculture American annexation anti-slavery become capital career carried cause character circumstances civilization colonization communities condition Confederacy confined Congress connexion consequences considerable Constitution contest cotton crops cultivation d'esclaves democratic Dred Scott economic effect emancipation employed established états exist fact favour Federal fertile force free labour freedom Fugitive Slave Law increase independence industry influence institutions interests Kansas Kentucky l'esclavage land less Louisiana means ment Mexico Missouri Compromise mode moral Morrill tariff nations nature necessity negro North America Northern object Olmsted Olmsted's once peasant peculiar persons planters political portion position present principle productive profitable proprietors purpose question race regarded result says scarcely secession Senate slave labour Slave party slave population Slave Power slave societies slaveholders social soil South Southern Southern party success tariff tariff of 1832 territory Texas tion tobacco ultimate extinction Union United Virginia wealth whole