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... negroes in dif- ferent parts of Kentucky , and was taking them to a farm in the South . They were chained six and six together . A small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each , and this was fastened to the main chain by a ...
... negroes in dif- ferent parts of Kentucky , and was taking them to a farm in the South . They were chained six and six together . A small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each , and this was fastened to the main chain by a ...
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... negroes . You inquire where I now stand . That is a disputed point . I think I am a Whig ; but others say there are no Whigs , and that I am an Abolitionist . When I was at Washington , I voted for the Wil- mot proviso as good as forty ...
... negroes . You inquire where I now stand . That is a disputed point . I think I am a Whig ; but others say there are no Whigs , and that I am an Abolitionist . When I was at Washington , I voted for the Wil- mot proviso as good as forty ...
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... negroes . I thought that in your struggle for the Union , to whatever extent the negroes should cease help- ing the enemy , to that extent it weakened the enemy in his resistance to you . Do you think dif- ferently ? I thought that ...
... negroes . I thought that in your struggle for the Union , to whatever extent the negroes should cease help- ing the enemy , to that extent it weakened the enemy in his resistance to you . Do you think dif- ferently ? I thought that ...
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