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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Page 375
... slavery is an excepted case . To say that the prohibition of tyranny and oppression include slavery is to beg the whole question . Tyranny and oppression involve either the unjust usurpation or the unlawful exercise of power . It is the ...
... slavery is an excepted case . To say that the prohibition of tyranny and oppression include slavery is to beg the whole question . Tyranny and oppression involve either the unjust usurpation or the unlawful exercise of power . It is the ...
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... slavery and free trade nationalized ! Slavery , thus entrenched in the midst of such powerful allies , and without competition in tropical cultivation , has become the sole reliance of King Cotton . Lest the sources of his ...
... slavery and free trade nationalized ! Slavery , thus entrenched in the midst of such powerful allies , and without competition in tropical cultivation , has become the sole reliance of King Cotton . Lest the sources of his ...
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... slavery , I cannot but hate . I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself . I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world ; enables the enemies of free institutions with ...
... slavery , I cannot but hate . I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself . I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world ; enables the enemies of free institutions with ...
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