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... master is willing to sell him . They foolishly expect to coerce the Southern people to uproot their social fabric , and for ever impoverish themselves and their pos- terity . Nay , more , they have the effrontery to offer such an ...
... master is willing to sell him . They foolishly expect to coerce the Southern people to uproot their social fabric , and for ever impoverish themselves and their pos- terity . Nay , more , they have the effrontery to offer such an ...
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... master teen of them had passed laws in their State Legis- latures to that effect . To meet the complaint urged by the owners of slaves using the fair legal argu- ment that the law of the land was bound to protect their property ...
... master teen of them had passed laws in their State Legis- latures to that effect . To meet the complaint urged by the owners of slaves using the fair legal argu- ment that the law of the land was bound to protect their property ...
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... masters , and allowed them to sink back to their savage condition . " * " There is no blinking the truth . Years of bitter experience ; years of hope deferred ; of self - devotion unrequited ; of poverty ; of humiliation ; of prayers ...
... masters , and allowed them to sink back to their savage condition . " * " There is no blinking the truth . Years of bitter experience ; years of hope deferred ; of self - devotion unrequited ; of poverty ; of humiliation ; of prayers ...
Page 49
... master who treats him with kindness and consideration ; but I forbear , from the knowledge I have that the very mention of the relation brings with it the whole source of the bitterness that has brought communities living under one law ...
... master who treats him with kindness and consideration ; but I forbear , from the knowledge I have that the very mention of the relation brings with it the whole source of the bitterness that has brought communities living under one law ...
Page 154
... master's will and did it not . You will say this implies violence . Not at all ; it implies only peaceful , lawful , constitutional customary action . I cannot too strongly express my surprise that those who insist that the people of ...
... master's will and did it not . You will say this implies violence . Not at all ; it implies only peaceful , lawful , constitutional customary action . I cannot too strongly express my surprise that those who insist that the people of ...
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