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143 Under these circumstances an illiterate race of white peasants came into being in the heart of slave civilization . There was no place for them in the social structure . Long before the Civil War the downward pull of economic forces ...
143 Under these circumstances an illiterate race of white peasants came into being in the heart of slave civilization . There was no place for them in the social structure . Long before the Civil War the downward pull of economic forces ...
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4 It was impossible to defend slave industrialism with reasons that were intelligible to the civilized world . Not only the Northern states , but indeed the whole of civilization had outgrown the idea of negro slavery .
4 It was impossible to defend slave industrialism with reasons that were intelligible to the civilized world . Not only the Northern states , but indeed the whole of civilization had outgrown the idea of negro slavery .
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Slaves trained in the mechanical trades were hired out by their owners at low wages . ... In Charleston in 1848 there were one hundred and twenty slave carpenters against one hundred and nineteen whites engaged in the same occupation ...
Slaves trained in the mechanical trades were hired out by their owners at low wages . ... In Charleston in 1848 there were one hundred and twenty slave carpenters against one hundred and nineteen whites engaged in the same occupation ...
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Contents
CEAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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