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... on terms of perfect equality , " but in the right to eat the bread , without the leave of anybody else , which his own hand earns , the negro is my equal , and the equal of Judge Douglas , and the equal of every living man .
... on terms of perfect equality , " but in the right to eat the bread , without the leave of anybody else , which his own hand earns , the negro is my equal , and the equal of Judge Douglas , and the equal of every living man .
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| Title | Addresses and Papers by Andrew S. Draper ...: 1909-1910 |
| Author | Andrew Sloan Draper |
| Contributor | University of the State of New York |
| Published | 1910 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 Apr 2007 |
| Length | 192 pages |
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