The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil WarKnopf, 1973 - 385 páginas |
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... never amount to much in the scale of civilization . I never knew him to have a friend among the negroes while he was in Washington , and he never seemed to care for them , or they for him , although he never manifested any particular ...
... never amount to much in the scale of civilization . I never knew him to have a friend among the negroes while he was in Washington , and he never seemed to care for them , or they for him , although he never manifested any particular ...
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... never detect in Brown " the evi- dence of great human quality . " Brown's execution aroused his emotions , he told Traubel , but " not enough to take away my appetite - to spoil my supper . . . . I am never convinced by the formal ...
... never detect in Brown " the evi- dence of great human quality . " Brown's execution aroused his emotions , he told Traubel , but " not enough to take away my appetite - to spoil my supper . . . . I am never convinced by the formal ...
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... never thought of being afraid of Negroes . I had never injured any of them ; why should they want to hurt me ? Two thirds of my religion consists in trying to be good to Negroes , because they are so in our power , and it would be easy ...
... never thought of being afraid of Negroes . I had never injured any of them ; why should they want to hurt me ? Two thirds of my religion consists in trying to be good to Negroes , because they are so in our power , and it would be easy ...
Contenido
THEY BREAK THE LINKS OF UNION I | 1 |
The Wholesome Calamity | 14 |
A PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW OF | 39 |
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