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... . 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 with.
... . 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 with.
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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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... slave - owning within their borders , and the abo- litionists ( as well as the Southern Democrats ) still continued ... slave labor lacked the intelligence to grow wheat successfully . Even if Kansas had been given bodily to the slave ...
... slave - owning within their borders , and the abo- litionists ( as well as the Southern Democrats ) still continued ... slave labor lacked the intelligence to grow wheat successfully . Even if Kansas had been given bodily to the slave ...
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CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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