Pro-slavery Thought in the Old SouthOriginally published by the University of North Carolina Press. |
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Page 104
... question had been settled once for all in the compromises of the Federal Constitution , did not care to reopen the question , and was content that no one else did so . On the few occasions in which the question was brought up in ...
... question had been settled once for all in the compromises of the Federal Constitution , did not care to reopen the question , and was content that no one else did so . On the few occasions in which the question was brought up in ...
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... question relative to slavery , for upon that question it had no power to act.21 Fol- lowing out this theory , it is easy to see how the Constitution did no violence to the first contention of the slaveholder , that is , that slavery ...
... question relative to slavery , for upon that question it had no power to act.21 Fol- lowing out this theory , it is easy to see how the Constitution did no violence to the first contention of the slaveholder , that is , that slavery ...
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... question would depend upon the results of research in the field of ethnology , the science that in- vestigates the mental and physical differences of mankind . Jefferson believed that the Negro lacked native ability for the higher ...
... question would depend upon the results of research in the field of ethnology , the science that in- vestigates the mental and physical differences of mankind . Jefferson believed that the Negro lacked native ability for the higher ...
Contents
PREFACE vii | 1 |
THE GROWTH OF PROSLAVERY THOUGHT | 48 |
The culmination of proslavery thought 18351860 | 89 |
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