The Negro in American History: A taste of freedom, 1854-1927Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, 1972 - African Americans Source material quoting from diaries, letters, court decisions, poetry, statements, articles, etc. by 137 different authors. |
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Page 186
... master class : Let us but remove the hireling demagogue , and we will see to it that the freedman is accorded a practical , complete , and cordial recognition of his equality with the white man before the law . As far as there has been ...
... master class : Let us but remove the hireling demagogue , and we will see to it that the freedman is accorded a practical , complete , and cordial recognition of his equality with the white man before the law . As far as there has been ...
Page 353
... master , and a greater good would be accomplished to the country in these times by the loyal master's retaining his property than by giving to the slave his liberty – I do not understand it so . Slavery is treason against God , man ...
... master , and a greater good would be accomplished to the country in these times by the loyal master's retaining his property than by giving to the slave his liberty – I do not understand it so . Slavery is treason against God , man ...
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... masters ' acts and the state of war , assumed the condition , which we hold to be the normal one , of those made in God's image ? Is not every constitutional , legal , and moral requirement , as well to the runaway master as their relin ...
... masters ' acts and the state of war , assumed the condition , which we hold to be the normal one , of those made in God's image ? Is not every constitutional , legal , and moral requirement , as well to the runaway master as their relin ...
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ALAIN LOCKE The High Cost of Prejudice | 3 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR Nixon v Herndon | 10 |
WILLIAM PICKENS The Emperor of Africa | 20 |
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