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every citizen in his rights , and doubly bound just then by private assurances to these very abolitionists , forgot all his duty , all his pledges , so far as to publicly warn them of the danger of their meeting a warning or threat ...
every citizen in his rights , and doubly bound just then by private assurances to these very abolitionists , forgot all his duty , all his pledges , so far as to publicly warn them of the danger of their meeting a warning or threat ...
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The Right of Petition Abolitionists had a problem : how to advance their cause without hopelessly repelling potential supporters by offending their basic attitudes . States rights were approved in the North , as well as in the South .
The Right of Petition Abolitionists had a problem : how to advance their cause without hopelessly repelling potential supporters by offending their basic attitudes . States rights were approved in the North , as well as in the South .
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The abolitionists split on complex issues of program and tactics . Some thought women should not make public appearances : this would harm their status as women ( it was thought ) and drive off hordes of Northerners who abominated ...
The abolitionists split on complex issues of program and tactics . Some thought women should not make public appearances : this would harm their status as women ( it was thought ) and drive off hordes of Northerners who abominated ...
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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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