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It is when Mr. Sumner , in Faneuil Hall , avows his determination to disobey the Fugitive Slave Law , and cries out , “ I was a man before I was a Commissioner , " when Mr. Giddings says of the fall of slavery , quoting Adams , " Let it ...
It is when Mr. Sumner , in Faneuil Hall , avows his determination to disobey the Fugitive Slave Law , and cries out , “ I was a man before I was a Commissioner , " when Mr. Giddings says of the fall of slavery , quoting Adams , " Let it ...
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plan includes , not only that slavery shall be abolished in the District [ of Columbia ] and Territories , but that the slave basis of representation shall be struck from the Constitution , and the slave - surrender clause construed ...
plan includes , not only that slavery shall be abolished in the District [ of Columbia ] and Territories , but that the slave basis of representation shall be struck from the Constitution , and the slave - surrender clause construed ...
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And South Carolina , with one half idlers , and the other half slaves — a slave doing only half the work of a freeman , only one quarter of the population actually at work - how much do you suppose she lays up ? Lays up a loss !
And South Carolina , with one half idlers , and the other half slaves — a slave doing only half the work of a freeman , only one quarter of the population actually at work - how much do you suppose she lays up ? Lays up a loss !
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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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