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 61
... slave - owner he was inspired by the information to make acidulous comments . This seems ungra- cious of him , as he had never met his future daughter - in - law , and knew nothing about her . It irritated him to think that his son was ...
... slave - owner he was inspired by the information to make acidulous comments . This seems ungra- cious of him , as he had never met his future daughter - in - law , and knew nothing about her . It irritated him to think that his son was ...
Page 64
... slavery was losing ground as an American institution . Many Southerners of ability and foresight were abolitionists ... slave system in the half - century that preceded the Civil War , was a negligible industry in the 1790's . Before ...
... slavery was losing ground as an American institution . Many Southerners of ability and foresight were abolitionists ... slave system in the half - century that preceded the Civil War , was a negligible industry in the 1790's . Before ...
Page 65
... slavery , perpetuated the slave system , and created a new Southern aristocracy . Without the cotton gin , there can be hardly a doubt that the Civil War would not have happened . Slavery would have died peaceably of economic anemia ...
... slavery , perpetuated the slave system , and created a new Southern aristocracy . Without the cotton gin , there can be hardly a doubt that the Civil War would not have happened . Slavery would have died peaceably of economic anemia ...
Page 66
... 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 were disliked by their ...
... 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 were disliked by their ...
Page 67
... slave state , and they were supported by all the Southern representatives in Congress . The North , in its desire to limit the slavery area , bitterly opposed the admission of Missouri unless its state constitution prohibited the ...
... slave state , and they were supported by all the Southern representatives in Congress . The North , in its desire to limit the slavery area , bitterly opposed the admission of Missouri unless its state constitution prohibited the ...
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