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 64
... method of ginning cotton . The immense uncleared regions back of the coast became available for cotton planting , and it was found that a negro was worth as much in a cotton field The Cotton Gin 65 as in a rice swamp . 64 Meet General ...
... method of ginning cotton . The immense uncleared regions back of the coast became available for cotton planting , and it was found that a negro was worth as much in a cotton field The Cotton Gin 65 as in a rice swamp . 64 Meet General ...
Page 66
... negro slowly faded to a shadow . But what of the North ? Long before the Revolution it had been found that negroes were not worth their keep on Northern farms , and so slavery gradually disappeared , but there was no emphatic feeling ...
... negro slowly faded to a shadow . But what of the North ? Long before the Revolution it had been found that negroes were not worth their keep on Northern farms , and so slavery gradually disappeared , but there was no emphatic feeling ...
Page 67
... negro could hardly get a job in New York City . The white working- man considered the negro as a competitor who would work for lower wages than a white man and live on a scale below the white man's standard . § 3 The political ...
... negro could hardly get a job in New York City . The white working- man considered the negro as a competitor who would work for lower wages than a white man and live on a scale below the white man's standard . § 3 The political ...
Page 102
... negro cabins , painted in harsh and depressing tones and filled with the stale odor of long - burning fires . It is characteristic of Grant that he always did , under any circumstances , what an ordinary man would do , unless the doing ...
... negro cabins , painted in harsh and depressing tones and filled with the stale odor of long - burning fires . It is characteristic of Grant that he always did , under any circumstances , what an ordinary man would do , unless the doing ...
Page 113
... negro fugitives from the South . If a runaway slave from Virginia or Kentucky managed to get across the border he was fed and secreted by abolitionists , who passed him from one house to another until he reached Canada , or some other ...
... negro fugitives from the South . If a runaway slave from Virginia or Kentucky managed to get across the border he was fed and secreted by abolitionists , who passed him from one house to another until he reached Canada , or some other ...
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