American slavery: repr. of an article [by N.W. Senior, entitled Slavery in the United States] on 'Uncle Tom's cabin' [by H.E.B. Stowe] and of mr. Sumner's speech of the 19th and 20th of May, 1856. With a notice of the events which followed that speech |
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... negro life was doubted . But in the following September , the London publishers furnished to one house 10,000 copies per day for about four weeks , and had to em- ploy 1000 persons in preparing copies to supply the general demand . We ...
... negro life was doubted . But in the following September , the London publishers furnished to one house 10,000 copies per day for about four weeks , and had to em- ploy 1000 persons in preparing copies to supply the general demand . We ...
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... negro was not an element in the deliberation . He was a heathen , a worshipper of devils , a vessel of wrath , created for the purpose of enduring eternal misery , and to give him a foretaste in this world of what was to be his fate in ...
... negro was not an element in the deliberation . He was a heathen , a worshipper of devils , a vessel of wrath , created for the purpose of enduring eternal misery , and to give him a foretaste in this world of what was to be his fate in ...
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... negro slave never had existed in the Indian country , except in a few instances among the Cherokees . As soon , therefore , as the Union was to be increased by the in- troduction of new States , the question arose whether slaves should ...
... negro slave never had existed in the Indian country , except in a few instances among the Cherokees . As soon , therefore , as the Union was to be increased by the in- troduction of new States , the question arose whether slaves should ...
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... negro , is admitted unto the Union as a slave State . Few things have more surprised the world than the deterioration of the political men of America . When the United States were a mere aggregate of scantily peopled colonies , -when ...
... negro , is admitted unto the Union as a slave State . Few things have more surprised the world than the deterioration of the political men of America . When the United States were a mere aggregate of scantily peopled colonies , -when ...
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... negro , or on the descendant of a negro , as a fellow creature . For the first two years after the passing of the Act , the lower classes in New York and Boston enjoyed the excitement of a negro * Chapter 45 . hunt as much as our ...
... negro , or on the descendant of a negro , as a fellow creature . For the first two years after the passing of the Act , the lower classes in New York and Boston enjoyed the excitement of a negro * Chapter 45 . hunt as much as our ...
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