Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... become alike lawful in all the states , old as well 20 as new -- North as well as South . By the time these men spoke their famous phrases , the formu- lations in which they were couched had become standard anti- slavery rhetoric . " We ...
... become alike lawful in all the states , old as well 20 as new -- North as well as South . By the time these men spoke their famous phrases , the formu- lations in which they were couched had become standard anti- slavery rhetoric . " We ...
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... become even more oppressive when linked with sin for , according to the Burkean scheme , both burdens and benefits pass , and when the sons could see that their prosperity was founded upon the sin of slavery , then the burdens and ...
... become even more oppressive when linked with sin for , according to the Burkean scheme , both burdens and benefits pass , and when the sons could see that their prosperity was founded upon the sin of slavery , then the burdens and ...
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... become like Eva , become like little children without evil , or suffer the fatal wound of Augustine St. Clare , whose beautiful image of apocalypse was made to become real in 1861. Her choice was really no choice at all , but the fusing ...
... become like Eva , become like little children without evil , or suffer the fatal wound of Augustine St. Clare , whose beautiful image of apocalypse was made to become real in 1861. Her choice was really no choice at all , but the fusing ...
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