Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... slaves , America may possibly vie in cheap- ness of manufactures with Britain . The labour of slaves can never be so cheap here as the labour of working men is in Britain . Any one may compute it . Interest of money is in the colonies ...
... slaves , America may possibly vie in cheap- ness of manufactures with Britain . The labour of slaves can never be so cheap here as the labour of working men is in Britain . Any one may compute it . Interest of money is in the colonies ...
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... slaves , not labouring , are enfeebled , and therefore not so generally prolific ; the slaves being worked too hard and ill fed , their constitutions are broken , and the deaths among them are more than the births ; so that a continual ...
... slaves , not labouring , are enfeebled , and therefore not so generally prolific ; the slaves being worked too hard and ill fed , their constitutions are broken , and the deaths among them are more than the births ; so that a continual ...
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... slaves , that has blackened half America ? The thinness of the inhabitants in Spain is owing to national pride , and idleness , and other causes , rather than to the expulsion of the Moors , or to the making of new settlements . 22 ...
... slaves , that has blackened half America ? The thinness of the inhabitants in Spain is owing to national pride , and idleness , and other causes , rather than to the expulsion of the Moors , or to the making of new settlements . 22 ...
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... over the hedge . B. F. : OBSERVATIONS ON WAR . By the original law of nations , war and extirpation were the punishment of injury . Humanizing by de- grees , it admitted slavery instead of death : a 44 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
... over the hedge . B. F. : OBSERVATIONS ON WAR . By the original law of nations , war and extirpation were the punishment of injury . Humanizing by de- grees , it admitted slavery instead of death : a 44 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
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Benjamin Franklin. grees , it admitted slavery instead of death : a far- ther step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery another , to respect more the property of private persons under conquest , and be content with acquired ...
Benjamin Franklin. grees , it admitted slavery instead of death : a far- ther step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery another , to respect more the property of private persons under conquest , and be content with acquired ...
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