Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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Page 139
... slave- trader , or sell them to him , but the slave - trader himself was looked upon as a social pariah . The subject of slave - trading was tabooed in polite society . When it had to be discussed at all , its least repulsive profile ...
... slave- trader , or sell them to him , but the slave - trader himself was looked upon as a social pariah . The subject of slave - trading was tabooed in polite society . When it had to be discussed at all , its least repulsive profile ...
Page 143
... virus . Workmen were ashamed of being workmen . People who had no need of slaves saved money and bought them , in order to attain the social status that accompanied slave - ownership . § 4 It was impossible to defend slave industrialism ...
... virus . Workmen were ashamed of being workmen . People who had no need of slaves saved money and bought them , in order to attain the social status that accompanied slave - ownership . § 4 It was impossible to defend slave industrialism ...
Page 153
... slave - owning within their borders , and the abo- litionists ( as well as the Southern Democrats ) still continued ... slave labor lacked the intelligence to grow wheat successfully . Even if Kansas had been given bodily to the slave ...
... slave - owning within their borders , and the abo- litionists ( as well as the Southern Democrats ) still continued ... slave labor lacked the intelligence to grow wheat successfully . Even if Kansas had been given bodily to the slave ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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