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A gentleman had purchased twelve negroes in different parts of Kentucky , and was taking them to a farm in the South . They were chained six and six together . A small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each , and this was ...
A gentleman had purchased twelve negroes in different parts of Kentucky , and was taking them to a farm in the South . They were chained six and six together . A small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each , and this was ...
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The slave - breeders and slavetraders are a small , odious , and detested class among you ; and yet in politics they dictate the course of all of you , and are as completely your masters as you are the master of your own negroes .
The slave - breeders and slavetraders are a small , odious , and detested class among you ; and yet in politics they dictate the course of all of you , and are as completely your masters as you are the master of your own negroes .
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Whenever you shall have conquered all resistance to the Union , if I shall urge you to continue fighting , it will be an apt time then for you to declare you will not fight to free negroes . I thought that in your struggle for the Union ...
Whenever you shall have conquered all resistance to the Union , if I shall urge you to continue fighting , it will be an apt time then for you to declare you will not fight to free negroes . I thought that in your struggle for the Union ...
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| Title | The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: As Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | H. Jack Lang |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1965 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 11 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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