The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65; Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit Expecially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery, from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union, Volume 1 |
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... slaveholder , and only awaited opportunity to become one in deed and practice . And this sin- gle truth , operating upon the infinite varieties of human capacity and cul- ture , suffices to account for the uni- versality of slaveholding ...
... slaveholder , and only awaited opportunity to become one in deed and practice . And this sin- gle truth , operating upon the infinite varieties of human capacity and cul- ture , suffices to account for the uni- versality of slaveholding ...
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... slaveholding . Her narrow patches of arable soil , hemmed in between bogs and naked blocks of granite , were poorly adapt- ed to cultivation by slaves . labor of the hands without the brain , of muscle divorced from intelligence , would ...
... slaveholding . Her narrow patches of arable soil , hemmed in between bogs and naked blocks of granite , were poorly adapt- ed to cultivation by slaves . labor of the hands without the brain , of muscle divorced from intelligence , would ...
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... slaveholding as in our own day . But when Slavery had obtained eve- rywhere a foothold , and , in most col- onies , a distinct legal recognition , without encountering aught deserv- ing the name of serious resistance , it were absurd to ...
... slaveholding as in our own day . But when Slavery had obtained eve- rywhere a foothold , and , in most col- onies , a distinct legal recognition , without encountering aught deserv- ing the name of serious resistance , it were absurd to ...
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... slave- holding ; another was an interdiction of the sale or use of Rum - neither of them calculated to be popular with ... slaveholding , but , next to South Carolina , the most infatuated of all the thirteen colonies in its devotion to ...
... slave- holding ; another was an interdiction of the sale or use of Rum - neither of them calculated to be popular with ... slaveholding , but , next to South Carolina , the most infatuated of all the thirteen colonies in its devotion to ...
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... slave- holding rendered it impolitic to send forth as an integral portion of our sion of our slaves in this colony upon the most safe and equitable footing for the masters and them- selves . " - American Archives , 4th Series , vol . i ...
... slave- holding rendered it impolitic to send forth as an integral portion of our sion of our slaves in this colony upon the most safe and equitable footing for the masters and them- selves . " - American Archives , 4th Series , vol . i ...
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