A Short History of the American NegroMacmillan, 1939 - 288 pages |
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Page 27
... interests of the North and the slaveholding interests of the South , the granting to Con- gress of unrestricted power to enact navigation laws being conceded in exchange for twenty years ' continu- ance THE ERA OF THE REVOLUTION 27.
... interests of the North and the slaveholding interests of the South , the granting to Con- gress of unrestricted power to enact navigation laws being conceded in exchange for twenty years ' continu- ance THE ERA OF THE REVOLUTION 27.
Page 86
... interest . Thus matters drifted until 1850 , and it was in the decade that followed that the traffic on the high seas was so greatly renewed . It became more and more open and defiant until , as Stephen A. Douglas computed , as many as ...
... interest . Thus matters drifted until 1850 , and it was in the decade that followed that the traffic on the high seas was so greatly renewed . It became more and more open and defiant until , as Stephen A. Douglas computed , as many as ...
Page 92
... interest by no book of the period except Uncle Tom's Cabin . The author , Hinton Rowan Helper , was from North Carolina . He did not place himself upon the broadest principles of statesmanship ; he had little interest in the Negro slave ...
... interest by no book of the period except Uncle Tom's Cabin . The author , Hinton Rowan Helper , was from North Carolina . He did not place himself upon the broadest principles of statesmanship ; he had little interest in the Negro slave ...
Contents
The African Slave Coast | 1 |
Servitude and Slavery | 7 |
The First Blows for Liberty | 14 |
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