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Page 225
... slaves must be constantly goaded and supervised very closely - " nigger - driving " was , it seems , not an op- probrious term but an accepted technical expression - and when the planter , as is always the case if he owns any large ...
... slaves must be constantly goaded and supervised very closely - " nigger - driving " was , it seems , not an op- probrious term but an accepted technical expression - and when the planter , as is always the case if he owns any large ...
Page 243
... slavery question . He had taken a leading part in a couple of attempts at jailbreaks when runaway slaves had been arrested in Boston , and — what was unheard of there on the part of a representative of one of its first families - had ...
... slavery question . He had taken a leading part in a couple of attempts at jailbreaks when runaway slaves had been arrested in Boston , and — what was unheard of there on the part of a representative of one of its first families - had ...
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... slaves , since this " would set at defiance all laws for the protection of life , liberty and property , either among them or the whites . " Robert E. Lee himself had always so disapproved of slavery that , on a visit to Baltimore , not ...
... slaves , since this " would set at defiance all laws for the protection of life , liberty and property , either among them or the whites . " Robert E. Lee himself had always so disapproved of slavery that , on a visit to Baltimore , not ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
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