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... took place by using facts imaginatively . The technique is not new with me . Allan Nevins , one of the greatest American historians of all time , wove historical data into graphic scenes and simulated dia- logue in his widely acclaimed ...
... took place by using facts imaginatively . The technique is not new with me . Allan Nevins , one of the greatest American historians of all time , wove historical data into graphic scenes and simulated dia- logue in his widely acclaimed ...
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... took charge and begged , instructed , adjured , sup- plicated , and exhorted my northern colleagues to have mercy on the white people of Missouri . In the end I won a majority of Congress to my compromise proposal , which allowed ...
... took charge and begged , instructed , adjured , sup- plicated , and exhorted my northern colleagues to have mercy on the white people of Missouri . In the end I won a majority of Congress to my compromise proposal , which allowed ...
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... took for my wife a young girl , Cherry , who was also a slave at Master Samuel's place . The rage grew in me as I grew ; it filled my imagination with visions of retaliation . One day , while I struggled behind my mule- drawn plow , I ...
... took for my wife a young girl , Cherry , who was also a slave at Master Samuel's place . The rage grew in me as I grew ; it filled my imagination with visions of retaliation . One day , while I struggled behind my mule- drawn plow , I ...
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... took me to the shed and flogged me . Every stroke of his whip on my back stoked the fire in my belly like a hot wind . For almost three years , there were no further signs . But word passed from slave to slave that insurrection scares ...
... took me to the shed and flogged me . Every stroke of his whip on my back stoked the fire in my belly like a hot wind . For almost three years , there were no further signs . But word passed from slave to slave that insurrection scares ...
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... took the opportunity , away from white scrutiny , to spread disaffection among my fellow blacks . Then in February 1831 there was another sign . This time it was an eclipse of the sun , which caused the superstitious of both races to ...
... took the opportunity , away from white scrutiny , to spread disaffection among my fellow blacks . Then in February 1831 there was another sign . This time it was an eclipse of the sun , which caused the superstitious of both races to ...
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Page 227 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 430 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 230 - Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under .the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now ? — now — when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered...
Page 342 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit. and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Page 163 - Americans, South as well as North, shall we make no effort to arrest this? Already the liberal party throughout the world express the apprehension " that the one retrograde institution in America is undermining the principles of progress, and fatally violating the noblest political system the world ever saw.
Page 200 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 243 - I have only to say, let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man — this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position — discarding our standard that we have left us.
Page 255 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?