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 139
... slave- trader , or sell them to him , but the slave - trader himself was - looked upon as a social pariah . The subject of slave - trading was tabooed in polite society . When it had to be discussed at all , its least repulsive profile ...
... slave- trader , or sell them to him , but the slave - trader himself was - looked upon as a social pariah . The subject of slave - trading was tabooed in polite society . When it had to be discussed at all , its least repulsive profile ...
Page 143
... virus . Workmen were ashamed of being workmen . People who had no need of slaves saved money and bought them , in order to attain the social status that accompanied slave - ownership . $ 4 It was impossible to defend slave industrialism ...
... virus . Workmen were ashamed of being workmen . People who had no need of slaves saved money and bought them , in order to attain the social status that accompanied slave - ownership . $ 4 It was impossible to defend slave industrialism ...
Page 153
... slave - owning within their borders , and the abo- litionists ( as well as the Southern Democrats ) still continued ... slave labor lacked the intelligence to grow wheat successfully . Even if Kansas had been given bodily to the slave ...
... slave - owning within their borders , and the abo- litionists ( as well as the Southern Democrats ) still continued ... slave labor lacked the intelligence to grow wheat successfully . Even if Kansas had been given bodily to the slave ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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