American Slavery: A Reprint of an Article on "Uncle Tom's Cabin", of which a Portion was Inserted in the 206th Number of the "Edinburgh Review"; and of Mr. Sumner's Speech of the 19th and 20th of May, 1856 |
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... lives near the line of a fugitive's es- cape . Those penalties are , to men of the moderate fortunes common in America , absolutely ruinous . Yet who when he rises in the morning can say , that he shall not render himself liable to them ...
... lives near the line of a fugitive's es- cape . Those penalties are , to men of the moderate fortunes common in America , absolutely ruinous . Yet who when he rises in the morning can say , that he shall not render himself liable to them ...
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... live down . But , since " the Act of 1850 , when she heard with consternation " Christian and humane people actually recommending " the remanding escaped fugitives into slavery as a " duty binding on good citizens ; when she heard on ...
... live down . But , since " the Act of 1850 , when she heard with consternation " Christian and humane people actually recommending " the remanding escaped fugitives into slavery as a " duty binding on good citizens ; when she heard on ...
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... lives , and who had even been " accustomed to hold prose fictions in abomination . " Even in this country in some classes , particularly among the Dissenters , novel reading is forbidden , and here , as in America , " Uncle Tom " is ...
... lives , and who had even been " accustomed to hold prose fictions in abomination . " Even in this country in some classes , particularly among the Dissenters , novel reading is forbidden , and here , as in America , " Uncle Tom " is ...
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... live without knowledge , and " without the capacity to make anything his own , and " to toil that another may reap the fruits . What moral " considerations can be addressed to such a being " to convince him , which it is impossible but ...
... live without knowledge , and " without the capacity to make anything his own , and " to toil that another may reap the fruits . What moral " considerations can be addressed to such a being " to convince him , which it is impossible but ...
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... lives , there is no appeal for him against his master ; and that even his death under his master's hand is not punishable , unless it can be proved that the master's intention was to kill , - not merely to tor- ture . We are not ...
... lives , there is no appeal for him against his master ; and that even his death under his master's hand is not punishable , unless it can be proved that the master's intention was to kill , - not merely to tor- ture . We are not ...
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