The Negro in American History: A taste of freedom, 1854-1927Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, 1969 - African Americans Vol. 1, A taste of freedom, 1854-1927. Vol. 2, Slaves and masters, 1567-1854. Vol. 3, New Your, New York. |
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... Labor Union with Myers as its president . The new union issued the following platform on January 1 , 1870 , closely following the resolutions of the National Labor Union , but with greater emphasis on education and on equal rights of ...
... Labor Union with Myers as its president . The new union issued the following platform on January 1 , 1870 , closely following the resolutions of the National Labor Union , but with greater emphasis on education and on equal rights of ...
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... labor is capable of producing from our earth all the necessities for human existence and the comfort of man , and from its vast and unbounded supply has become the greatest moral agent known to man , in that it affords a refuge for the ...
... labor is capable of producing from our earth all the necessities for human existence and the comfort of man , and from its vast and unbounded supply has become the greatest moral agent known to man , in that it affords a refuge for the ...
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... labor of the tropics has been chiefly forced labor . Those who have not been forced to labor have remained idle . In- deed , idleness is the child of the tropics . Black men in the South are without doubt almost as lazy as the white men ...
... labor of the tropics has been chiefly forced labor . Those who have not been forced to labor have remained idle . In- deed , idleness is the child of the tropics . Black men in the South are without doubt almost as lazy as the white men ...
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