A More Perfect Union: To 1877This two-volume primary source reader contains over 90 items and is organized chronologically and topically, with selections ranging from Lincoln's Gettysbury Address to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848. Documents new to the fourth edition provide more coverage of the West and religion, as well as a variety of political, social, and economic documents. |
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... colored people , and I determined to ascertain for myself their truth . Accordingly , last Monday , August 20 , accompanied by a guard of six men from this post , ( Elizabeth City , ) I proceeded to his residence , about forty miles ...
... colored people , and I determined to ascertain for myself their truth . Accordingly , last Monday , August 20 , accompanied by a guard of six men from this post , ( Elizabeth City , ) I proceeded to his residence , about forty miles ...
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... colored people I thought necessary as witnesses , intending to send them to Newbern for trial . But on account of the want of immediate transportation I concluded to release them on their giving a bond in the sum of $ 2,000 to Colonel E ...
... colored people I thought necessary as witnesses , intending to send them to Newbern for trial . But on account of the want of immediate transportation I concluded to release them on their giving a bond in the sum of $ 2,000 to Colonel E ...
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... colored people of the South are the laboring people of the South . The labor of a country is the source of its wealth ; without the colored laborer to - day the South would be a howling wilderness , given up to bats , owls , wolves ...
... colored people of the South are the laboring people of the South . The labor of a country is the source of its wealth ; without the colored laborer to - day the South would be a howling wilderness , given up to bats , owls , wolves ...
Contents
RECREATING POLITICAL SOCIETY | 16 |
THE UNDERSIDE OF PRIVILEGE | 24 |
LEARNING AND PIETY | 34 |
Copyright | |
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