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Southern defenses of slavery multiplied ; Northern antislavery societies proliferated from New England to the Midwestern frontier . Its spokesmen , both men and women , appealed to the moral , economic , social , and political interests ...
Southern defenses of slavery multiplied ; Northern antislavery societies proliferated from New England to the Midwestern frontier . Its spokesmen , both men and women , appealed to the moral , economic , social , and political interests ...
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( Later , Northern States would defy acts of Congress and decisions of the United States Supreme Court helpful to slave- holders , on grounds that these acts and decisions were repugnant to Northern liberties . ) Northern white people ...
( Later , Northern States would defy acts of Congress and decisions of the United States Supreme Court helpful to slave- holders , on grounds that these acts and decisions were repugnant to Northern liberties . ) Northern white people ...
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It is not Northern laws or officers they fear , but Northern conscience . Why , then , should not the North accept the issue , and try to settle the question forever ? You may run the Missouri line to the Pacific , but Garrison still ...
It is not Northern laws or officers they fear , but Northern conscience . Why , then , should not the North accept the issue , and try to settle the question forever ? You may run the Missouri line to the Pacific , but Garrison still ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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