American Heritage: An Anthology and Interpretive Survey of Our LiteratureLeon Howard Heath, 1955 - American literature |
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... slaves from Africa , slavery would begin to run out here . That was hoped and expected . Another is , that , as far as there was any power in Congress to prevent the spread of slavery in the United States , that power was executed in ...
... slaves from Africa , slavery would begin to run out here . That was hoped and expected . Another is , that , as far as there was any power in Congress to prevent the spread of slavery in the United States , that power was executed in ...
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... slavery in that territory ; and four of the " thirty - nine " who afterward framed the Constitution were in that Congress , and voted on that question . Of these , Roger Sher- man , Thomas Mifflin , and Hugh Williamson voted for the ...
... slavery in that territory ; and four of the " thirty - nine " who afterward framed the Constitution were in that Congress , and voted on that question . Of these , Roger Sher- man , Thomas Mifflin , and Hugh Williamson voted for the ...
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... slavery . If we should look into their acts and declarations on those other phases , 20 as the foreign slave - trade , and the morality and policy of slavery generally , it would appear to us that on the direct question of federal ...
... slavery . If we should look into their acts and declarations on those other phases , 20 as the foreign slave - trade , and the morality and policy of slavery generally , it would appear to us that on the direct question of federal ...
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