Meet General GrantAmerikansk historie, USA's historie, amerikansk biografi om General Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1889, som først havde en militær karriere, bl.a. i Mexican War, og blev en berømt general i Nordstatshæren, Union Army, under den Amerikanske Borgerkrig, 1861-1865, og senere endte som amerikansk president. Beskriver hans liv, levnedsløb og militære og politiske karriere. Udkom i 1928. |
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Page 66
... Northern farms , and so slavery gradually disappeared , but there was no emphatic feeling against it in the great mass of Northern people . The opposition to slavery was kept alive by small groups of intelligentsia , or reformers , who ...
... Northern farms , and so slavery gradually disappeared , but there was no emphatic feeling against it in the great mass of Northern people . The opposition to slavery was kept alive by small groups of intelligentsia , or reformers , who ...
Page 131
... Northern mind , tuned to alertness by twenty years of Garrison and the abolitionists , Mrs. Stowe's novel fell like a burst of dazzling light . Now one might know all ! Here was reality ; here was truth . Eliza and Uncle Tom , the kind ...
... Northern mind , tuned to alertness by twenty years of Garrison and the abolitionists , Mrs. Stowe's novel fell like a burst of dazzling light . Now one might know all ! Here was reality ; here was truth . Eliza and Uncle Tom , the kind ...
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... Northern people to fight about . They wanted to get rid of slavery . Well , they had got rid of it . The Confederate States had no intention of invading Northern ... Northern affairs . Then , what motive was there to induce Northern men.
... Northern people to fight about . They wanted to get rid of slavery . Well , they had got rid of it . The Confederate States had no intention of invading Northern ... Northern affairs . Then , what motive was there to induce Northern men.
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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