American slavery: repr. of an article [by N.W. Senior, entitled Slavery in the United States] on 'Uncle Tom's cabin' [by H.E.B. Stowe] and of mr. Sumner's speech of the 19th and 20th of May, 1856. With a notice of the events which followed that speech |
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... master have given him a wife , and she have borne him sons or " daughters , the wife and her children shall be her " master's , and he shall go out by himself . And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid servant , she " shall not go ...
... master have given him a wife , and she have borne him sons or " daughters , the wife and her children shall be her " master's , and he shall go out by himself . And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid servant , she " shall not go ...
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... master and slave was mischievous to both parties , hardening the heart , worrying the temper , and weak- ening the self - control of the one , and degrading the other into a brute , with all the vices of a man , and few virtues except ...
... master and slave was mischievous to both parties , hardening the heart , worrying the temper , and weak- ening the self - control of the one , and degrading the other into a brute , with all the vices of a man , and few virtues except ...
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... master could show a bill of sale from the Almighty . " In the mean time the slave trade was abolished . Indigo and rice , the great staples of the slave States , were produced more cheaply in India ; and it seemed probable that the ...
... master could show a bill of sale from the Almighty . " In the mean time the slave trade was abolished . Indigo and rice , the great staples of the slave States , were produced more cheaply in India ; and it seemed probable that the ...
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... master ; -the Virginian wife , who sees her husband handcuffed and carried off , be- cause his good conduct , industry , and skill have made him so valuable that his master thinks that he cannot afford to keep him ; -the Virginian ...
... master ; -the Virginian wife , who sees her husband handcuffed and carried off , be- cause his good conduct , industry , and skill have made him so valuable that his master thinks that he cannot afford to keep him ; -the Virginian ...
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... master wounded and dying . This long preface is too obviously artificial . Indeed , the event itself is too obviously artificial . A novelist has always the power of bringing on a catastrophe by an unexpected opportune death , but it is ...
... master wounded and dying . This long preface is too obviously artificial . Indeed , the event itself is too obviously artificial . A novelist has always the power of bringing on a catastrophe by an unexpected opportune death , but it is ...
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