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Wendell Phillips on civil rights and freedom . Selections chosen from the author's Speeches , lectures , and letters , v . 1 and v . 2 , published in 1864 and 1891 respectively . Includes index . 1. Slavery -- United States -- Anti ...
Wendell Phillips on civil rights and freedom . Selections chosen from the author's Speeches , lectures , and letters , v . 1 and v . 2 , published in 1864 and 1891 respectively . Includes index . 1. Slavery -- United States -- Anti ...
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The point is that our would - be civil libertarians of the present day who pretend to appreciate Emerson have no sense of the utter vitality which fills Phillips's fighting demands for civil liberties and freedom .
The point is that our would - be civil libertarians of the present day who pretend to appreciate Emerson have no sense of the utter vitality which fills Phillips's fighting demands for civil liberties and freedom .
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He did not cry anarchy , and let slip the dogs of civil war , careless of the horrors which would follow . Sir , as I understand this affair , it was not an individual protect- ing his property ; it was not one body of armed men ...
He did not cry anarchy , and let slip the dogs of civil war , careless of the horrors which would follow . Sir , as I understand this affair , it was not an individual protect- ing his property ; it was not one body of armed men ...
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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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