Slavery and Four Years of War: A Political History of Slavery in the United States, Together with a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War in which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865, Volume 1G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900 - History |
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... Southern States , and the formation of " The Confederate States of America " ; also what the North did to try to avert the Rebellion . It was written to show why and how the Civil War came , what the conquered lost , and what the ...
... Southern States , and the formation of " The Confederate States of America " ; also what the North did to try to avert the Rebellion . It was written to show why and how the Civil War came , what the conquered lost , and what the ...
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... southern clime , and to the cotton , rice , and tobacco fields of the large plantations of the South . As late as 1804-7 , negroes from the coast of Africa were brought to Boston , Bristol , Providence , and Hartford to be sold into ...
... southern clime , and to the cotton , rice , and tobacco fields of the large plantations of the South . As late as 1804-7 , negroes from the coast of Africa were brought to Boston , Bristol , Providence , and Hartford to be sold into ...
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... Southern settlers from the beginning , which , with other favoring causes , made it easier for slavery to take root and prosper , and ulti- mately fasten itself upon and become a dominating factor in the whole social and political ...
... Southern settlers from the beginning , which , with other favoring causes , made it easier for slavery to take root and prosper , and ulti- mately fasten itself upon and become a dominating factor in the whole social and political ...
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... Southern States . Slavery also existed at the Vincennes , Kaskaskia , Cahokia , and other French settlements , where it had been planted under the authority of the King of France while the territory was a part of the French possessions ...
... Southern States . Slavery also existed at the Vincennes , Kaskaskia , Cahokia , and other French settlements , where it had been planted under the authority of the King of France while the territory was a part of the French possessions ...
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... Southern States , 657,527 ; there being in Virginia alone 293,427 , nearly one half of all . The Convention closed its work September 17 , 1787 , and on the same date George Washington , its President , by letter submitted the ...
... Southern States , 657,527 ; there being in Virginia alone 293,427 , nearly one half of all . The Convention closed its work September 17 , 1787 , and on the same date George Washington , its President , by letter submitted the ...
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Page 138 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
Page 138 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.
Page 178 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
Page 4 - And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening : knowing that your Master also is in heaven : neither is there respect of persons with him."-— Eph.
Page 110 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 126 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 150 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Page 4 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things ; not answering again ; not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Page 151 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 20 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...