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... facts , the times , the different sections - his friends and his enemies . I have tried to give New England her just dues -which are great . And I have likewise tried to do justice to the South , whose fair proportion of the toil and ...
... facts , the times , the different sections - his friends and his enemies . I have tried to give New England her just dues -which are great . And I have likewise tried to do justice to the South , whose fair proportion of the toil and ...
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... fact alone seems to be due the im- pression that Peter Jefferson was a man of inferior social position . Biographers , having no eyes for the head of the family at Osborne's , follow Peter as he surveys land , locates state grants ...
... fact alone seems to be due the im- pression that Peter Jefferson was a man of inferior social position . Biographers , having no eyes for the head of the family at Osborne's , follow Peter as he surveys land , locates state grants ...
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... ancestors ; was , in fact , one strong motive for the introduction of negro slavery , and to a very considerable extent is the unwritten social law at this day . Rail - splitters , tenants of log - cabins , 4 LIFE AND TIMES OF JEFFERSON.
... ancestors ; was , in fact , one strong motive for the introduction of negro slavery , and to a very considerable extent is the unwritten social law at this day . Rail - splitters , tenants of log - cabins , 4 LIFE AND TIMES OF JEFFERSON.
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... fact that , after the war of the American Revolution , Great Britain changed her entire colonial policy . She no longer asserted the right of her Parliament to tax her distant colonies ; she conceded to them the principle of local self ...
... fact that , after the war of the American Revolution , Great Britain changed her entire colonial policy . She no longer asserted the right of her Parliament to tax her distant colonies ; she conceded to them the principle of local self ...
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... fact , given offense to many insolent English officials , from whose point of view a colonial was an inferior who had few rights they were bound to respect . In this spirit was conceived the Stamp Act - a measure which had no precedent ...
... fact , given offense to many insolent English officials , from whose point of view a colonial was an inferior who had few rights they were bound to respect . In this spirit was conceived the Stamp Act - a measure which had no precedent ...
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