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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Page 144
... slavery and begin treating blacks as human beings with all the rights of other citizens . " Treat us like men , " he cried , " and we will be friends . " In composing his Appeal Walker knew whereof he wrote . A free black man born in ...
... slavery and begin treating blacks as human beings with all the rights of other citizens . " Treat us like men , " he cried , " and we will be friends . " In composing his Appeal Walker knew whereof he wrote . A free black man born in ...
Page 149
... slavery through persuasion , not violence . Yet , after the rapid spread of the Cotton Kingdom had made slavery so profitable , persuading significant numbers of slave- holders to free their slaves seemed hopeless . It became virtually ...
... slavery through persuasion , not violence . Yet , after the rapid spread of the Cotton Kingdom had made slavery so profitable , persuading significant numbers of slave- holders to free their slaves seemed hopeless . It became virtually ...
Page 153
... slavery is a lamentable necessity , contributes his share to support it ; and he who votes for admitting a slave - holding State into the Union , fearfully augments the amount of this crime . . . . The abolitionists think it a duty to ...
... slavery is a lamentable necessity , contributes his share to support it ; and he who votes for admitting a slave - holding State into the Union , fearfully augments the amount of this crime . . . . The abolitionists think it a duty to ...
Contents
RECREATING POLITICAL SOCIETY | 16 |
THE UNDERSIDE OF PRIVILEGE | 24 |
LEARNING AND PIETY | 34 |
Copyright | |
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