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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... indi- viduals . The present degradation of the United States is a tremendous warning . It must sadden and alarm all who believe in the excellence of purely democratic institutions . SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES . * THE sale of iv PREFACE .
... indi- viduals . The present degradation of the United States is a tremendous warning . It must sadden and alarm all who believe in the excellence of purely democratic institutions . SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES . * THE sale of iv PREFACE .
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... institutions wiser than any that man could invent . * * This error has been admirably illustrated by Archbishop Whately . " Christians acknowledge that the Mosaic Dispensation came from God ; and that that , and also the Christian ...
... institutions wiser than any that man could invent . * * This error has been admirably illustrated by Archbishop Whately . " Christians acknowledge that the Mosaic Dispensation came from God ; and that that , and also the Christian ...
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... institutions was domestic slavery ; pal- liated indeed in some respects when the slave was a Hebrew , but in others carried to its worst abuses . " If thou buy an Hebrew servant , " says the Book of Exodus , " six years shall he serve ...
... institutions was domestic slavery ; pal- liated indeed in some respects when the slave was a Hebrew , but in others carried to its worst abuses . " If thou buy an Hebrew servant , " says the Book of Exodus , " six years shall he serve ...
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... institution , though it might be Judaic , could scarcely be Christian , and by the time that the American colonies had achieved their independence , nearly all their great men had become earnest abolitionists . When , in the 14th of May ...
... institution , though it might be Judaic , could scarcely be Christian , and by the time that the American colonies had achieved their independence , nearly all their great men had become earnest abolitionists . When , in the 14th of May ...
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... institutions , and that the government of Louis Napoleon is the best thing that France could have . Thus , from the plague - spot at her heart , has America " become the propagandist of despotism in Europe . No- ' thing weighs so ...
... institutions , and that the government of Louis Napoleon is the best thing that France could have . Thus , from the plague - spot at her heart , has America " become the propagandist of despotism in Europe . No- ' thing weighs so ...
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