Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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George B. Forgie. : At the same time , both statements reveal an expectation.
George B. Forgie. : At the same time , both statements reveal an expectation.
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... expectation of eventual triumph of slavery or freedom , and of hope of the latter , but that neither statement can be read as an expectation of , desire for , or exhortation to , civil war . 20 . 21 Lincoln , Works , II , 461-62 ...
... expectation of eventual triumph of slavery or freedom , and of hope of the latter , but that neither statement can be read as an expectation of , desire for , or exhortation to , civil war . 20 . 21 Lincoln , Works , II , 461-62 ...
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... expectation of the end of the status quo , and project what we might call a sense of the ending . There must be an ... expectations . 32.
... expectation of the end of the status quo , and project what we might call a sense of the ending . There must be an ... expectations . 32.
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