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Long before the Revolution it had been found that negroes were not worth their keep on Northern farms , and so slavery gradually disappeared , but there was no emphatic feeling against it in the great mass of Northern people .
Long before the Revolution it had been found that negroes were not worth their keep on Northern farms , and so slavery gradually disappeared , but there was no emphatic feeling against it in the great mass of Northern people .
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It seemed to the intelligence of the South that there could be nothing whatever for the Northern people to fight about . They wanted to get rid of slavery . Well , they had got rid of it . The Confederate States had no intention of ...
It seemed to the intelligence of the South that there could be nothing whatever for the Northern people to fight about . They wanted to get rid of slavery . Well , they had got rid of it . The Confederate States had no intention of ...
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Then , what motive was there to induce Northern men to risk their lives ? Of course , the idea of preserving the Union , there was that ... but would men fight for such a cloudy abstraction ? Could the uncouth Lincoln drag a whole ...
Then , what motive was there to induce Northern men to risk their lives ? Of course , the idea of preserving the Union , there was that ... but would men fight for such a cloudy abstraction ? Could the uncouth Lincoln drag a whole ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Meet General Grant |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1946 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Oct 2006 |
| ISBN | 1404749136, 9781404749139 |
| Length | 524 pages |
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