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Page 66
... Northern farms , and so slavery gradually disappeared , but there was no emphatic feeling against it in the great mass of Northern people . The opposition to slavery was kept alive by small groups of intelligentsia , or reformers , who ...
... Northern farms , and so slavery gradually disappeared , but there was no emphatic feeling against it in the great mass of Northern people . The opposition to slavery was kept alive by small groups of intelligentsia , or reformers , who ...
Page 131
... Northern mind , tuned to alertness by twenty years of Garrison and the abolitionists , Mrs. Stowe's novel fell like a burst of dazzling light . Now one might know all ! Here was reality ; here was truth . Eliza and Uncle Tom , the kind ...
... Northern mind , tuned to alertness by twenty years of Garrison and the abolitionists , Mrs. Stowe's novel fell like a burst of dazzling light . Now one might know all ! Here was reality ; here was truth . Eliza and Uncle Tom , the kind ...
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... 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 invading Northern ... Northern affairs . Then , what motive was there to induce Northern men.
... 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 invading Northern ... Northern affairs . Then , what motive was there to induce Northern men.
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CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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