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Page 32
... land and negroes : emancipate the negroes - and the planters have no longer any capital for the cultivation of the land . Put the case of compensation : though it be difficult to see whence it could come : there is every probability ...
... land and negroes : emancipate the negroes - and the planters have no longer any capital for the cultivation of the land . Put the case of compensation : though it be difficult to see whence it could come : there is every probability ...
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... land - owner has been ruined and the labourer is fast relaps- ing into barbarism , and yet in face of this fact the land - owners of the Southern States are branded throughout the world as " tyrants " and " slave - breeders , " because ...
... land - owner has been ruined and the labourer is fast relaps- ing into barbarism , and yet in face of this fact the land - owners of the Southern States are branded throughout the world as " tyrants " and " slave - breeders , " because ...
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... land taught in the politico - economical school of which Malthus and Ricardo were the founders . By them we are assured that the settler commences always on the low and rich lands , and that , as population increases , men are required ...
... land taught in the politico - economical school of which Malthus and Ricardo were the founders . By them we are assured that the settler commences always on the low and rich lands , and that , as population increases , men are required ...
Page 40
... land , but that he did commence on the higher land , where the timber was lighter , and the place for his house was dry . With increasing ability , he is found draining the swamps , clearing the heavy timber , turning up the marl , or ...
... land , but that he did commence on the higher land , where the timber was lighter , and the place for his house was dry . With increasing ability , he is found draining the swamps , clearing the heavy timber , turning up the marl , or ...
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... lands , and that millions of acres of the finest meadow - land in that State still remain untouched . The settler in the prairies commences on the higher and drier land , leaving the wet prairie and the slough - the richest soil - for ...
... lands , and that millions of acres of the finest meadow - land in that State still remain untouched . The settler in the prairies commences on the higher and drier land , leaving the wet prairie and the slough - the richest soil - for ...
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The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why It Exists, and How It May Be ... Henry Charles Carey No preview available - 2018 |
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