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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... persons of African descent , with their consent , upon this continent , or elsewhere , with the previously obtained consent of the governments existing there , will be continued . That on the first day of January , in the year of our ...
... persons of African descent , with their consent , upon this continent , or elsewhere , with the previously obtained consent of the governments existing there , will be continued . That on the first day of January , in the year of our ...
Page xvi
... persons who shall here- after be engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States , or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto , escaping from such persons , and taking refuge within the lines of the army , and ...
... persons who shall here- after be engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States , or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto , escaping from such persons , and taking refuge within the lines of the army , and ...
Page 81
... persons to the square mile ! This , however , does not adequately represent the case ; for of these 23 persons one - third on an average were slaves . Deducting these , the density of population in Virgi- nia - of population among whom ...
... persons to the square mile ! This , however , does not adequately represent the case ; for of these 23 persons one - third on an average were slaves . Deducting these , the density of population in Virgi- nia - of population among whom ...
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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