The Democratic Spirit: A Collection of American Writings from the Earliest Times to the Present DayBernard Smith A. A. Knopf, 1941 - 927 pages |
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... master and the Friend that I believed slave - keeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion ... masters bore a good share of the burden , and lived frugally , so that their servants were well provided for , and their ...
... master and the Friend that I believed slave - keeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion ... masters bore a good share of the burden , and lived frugally , so that their servants were well provided for , and their ...
Page 195
... master of two slaves : to one he grants his liberty , with the means to go to a town in a free state . The other accompanies his old associate clandestinely . In this town , they engage their services voluntarily , to a common master ...
... master of two slaves : to one he grants his liberty , with the means to go to a town in a free state . The other accompanies his old associate clandestinely . In this town , they engage their services voluntarily , to a common master ...
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... master , or ascribe him to the soil . If it be not in the colour of his skin , and in the poor franchise of naming ... masters be one or many , an individual or an order , the hateful scheme of slavery will have gained a foothold in the ...
... master , or ascribe him to the soil . If it be not in the colour of his skin , and in the poor franchise of naming ... masters be one or many , an individual or an order , the hateful scheme of slavery will have gained a foothold in the ...
Contents
ROGER WILLIAMS 1603?1683 | 5 |
BACONS MAN 1676 | 13 |
JOHN WISE 16521725 | 20 |
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