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The Boston Mob The 1830s constituted a " Martyr Age , " in the memorable phrase of the English writer Harriet Martineau . During this period , anti- slavery elements in the Southern States were silenced or driven north .
The Boston Mob The 1830s constituted a " Martyr Age , " in the memorable phrase of the English writer Harriet Martineau . During this period , anti- slavery elements in the Southern States were silenced or driven north .
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Let us not consent to be ashamed of the Boston of 1835 . Those howling wolves in the streets were not Boston . These brave men and women were Boston . We will remember no other . I never open the statute book of Massachusetts without ...
Let us not consent to be ashamed of the Boston of 1835 . Those howling wolves in the streets were not Boston . These brave men and women were Boston . We will remember no other . I never open the statute book of Massachusetts without ...
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of your letter deserves to be read whenever Boston men are met together to celebrate the preservation of the right of free speech in the city of Adams and Otis . History , which always loves cour- age , will write it on a page whiter ...
of your letter deserves to be read whenever Boston men are met together to celebrate the preservation of the right of free speech in the city of Adams and Otis . History , which always loves cour- age , will write it on a page whiter ...
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| Title | Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom |
| Author | Wendell Phillips |
| Editor | Louis Filler |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Sep 2006 |
| ISBN | 0819127930, 9780819127938 |
| Length | 221 pages |
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