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Presumptuous to assert the freedom of the press on American ground ! Is the assertion of such freedom before the age ? So much before the age as to leave one no right to make it because it dis- pleases the community ?
Presumptuous to assert the freedom of the press on American ground ! Is the assertion of such freedom before the age ? So much before the age as to leave one no right to make it because it dis- pleases the community ?
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from my earliest knowledge of the cause , have I heard the opin- ion , that in the debatable land between Freedom and Slavery , in the thrilling incidents of the escape and sufferings of the fugitive , and the perils of his friends ...
from my earliest knowledge of the cause , have I heard the opin- ion , that in the debatable land between Freedom and Slavery , in the thrilling incidents of the escape and sufferings of the fugitive , and the perils of his friends ...
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Then add this fact - no race , not one , ever vindicated its freedom from slavery by the sword ; we did not win freedom by the sword ; we did not resist , we Saxons . If you go to the catalogue of races that have actually abolished ...
Then add this fact - no race , not one , ever vindicated its freedom from slavery by the sword ; we did not win freedom by the sword ; we did not resist , we Saxons . If you go to the catalogue of races that have actually abolished ...
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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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