Ten Years in the United States: Being an Englishman's View of Men and Things in the North Ad South |
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... Slaves - The Union CHAPTER IV . FROM WHITE - OAKS TO RICHMOND . Chewing - Manifest Destiny - Country Tavern - The News - Subjects of Conversation - Electioneering Betting 8 20 45 CHAPTER V. RICHMOND , VIRGINIA . -- Natives , Jews.
... Slaves - The Union CHAPTER IV . FROM WHITE - OAKS TO RICHMOND . Chewing - Manifest Destiny - Country Tavern - The News - Subjects of Conversation - Electioneering Betting 8 20 45 CHAPTER V. RICHMOND , VIRGINIA . -- Natives , Jews.
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... Slavery Question ( March 11 , 1850 ) -Present Events Foreshadowed Seward's Career - Bennett on Seward - Disunion debated in Senate -Negroes termed Accidents and Disturbances by Seward - Calcu- lations à la Bobadil - On Californian ...
... Slavery Question ( March 11 , 1850 ) -Present Events Foreshadowed Seward's Career - Bennett on Seward - Disunion debated in Senate -Negroes termed Accidents and Disturbances by Seward - Calcu- lations à la Bobadil - On Californian ...
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... Slavery on the Slave - owner— Effects of Demagogue Rule on Free - men - Abstract Injustice - Men not Equal - Origin of Slavery - Good to one Man may be Evil to another - Negro's cerebral Inferiority - Fate of the Negro should the North ...
... Slavery on the Slave - owner— Effects of Demagogue Rule on Free - men - Abstract Injustice - Men not Equal - Origin of Slavery - Good to one Man may be Evil to another - Negro's cerebral Inferiority - Fate of the Negro should the North ...
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... slaves did not wear chains or iron collars ; and that , though they were sometimes whipped , it was quite out of public sight . We passed close to a rough round fortification , rising perpendicularly from amidst the waves . Over it ...
... slaves did not wear chains or iron collars ; and that , though they were sometimes whipped , it was quite out of public sight . We passed close to a rough round fortification , rising perpendicularly from amidst the waves . Over it ...
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... slaves are , on the whole , better off , better treated , and in every way in a more improving and flourishing condition than niggers or coloured people of any race anywhere else . Take New Zealand , the Cape of Good Hope , Australia ...
... slaves are , on the whole , better off , better treated , and in every way in a more improving and flourishing condition than niggers or coloured people of any race anywhere else . Take New Zealand , the Cape of Good Hope , Australia ...
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