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... slave- trader , or sell them to him , but the slave - trader himself was looked upon as a social pariah . The subject of slave - trading was tabooed in polite society . When it had to be discussed at all , its least repulsive profile ...
... slave- trader , or sell them to him , but the slave - trader himself was looked upon as a social pariah . The subject of slave - trading was tabooed in polite society . When it had to be discussed at all , its least repulsive profile ...
Page 143
... virus . Workmen were ashamed of being workmen . People who had no need of slaves saved money and bought them , in order to attain the social status that accompanied slave - ownership . $ 4 It was impossible to defend slave industrialism ...
... virus . Workmen were ashamed of being workmen . People who had no need of slaves saved money and bought them , in order to attain the social status that accompanied slave - ownership . $ 4 It was impossible to defend slave industrialism ...
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... slave than he would be as a free man faced with the responsibility of looking out for himself in an intricate commercial society . They pointed out that the slave system forced the negro into regular and ab- stemious habits , that it ...
... slave than he would be as a free man faced with the responsibility of looking out for himself in an intricate commercial society . They pointed out that the slave system forced the negro into regular and ab- stemious habits , that it ...
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MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FAntasies | 25 |
THE UNWILLING Soldier | 38 |
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