The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn & Company, 1898 - 367 pages |
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Page 17
... slaves in Europe . Loud was then the outcry against Columbus . The rabble nick- named him the " Admiral of Mosquito Land . " They pointed at him as the man who had promised everything , and ended by dis- covering nothing but " a ...
... slaves in Europe . Loud was then the outcry against Columbus . The rabble nick- named him the " Admiral of Mosquito Land . " They pointed at him as the man who had promised everything , and ended by dis- covering nothing but " a ...
Page 29
... slave or a beast of burden for these insolent Spaniards , his fate was pitiful . They set him up as a target , and riddled his body with bullets ; or they chopped off his hands , and then sent him home to exhibit the useless , bleeding ...
... slave or a beast of burden for these insolent Spaniards , his fate was pitiful . They set him up as a target , and riddled his body with bullets ; or they chopped off his hands , and then sent him home to exhibit the useless , bleeding ...
Page 57
... slaves , as the cheapest means of carrying on great plantations . These plantations had a decided influence on the ... slave labor - exhausted the soil , and so compelled the planters to constantly add new land to their estates , thus ...
... slaves , as the cheapest means of carrying on great plantations . These plantations had a decided influence on the ... slave labor - exhausted the soil , and so compelled the planters to constantly add new land to their estates , thus ...
Page 58
... The date is sometimes , though incorrectly , given as June 30 . 6 The best tobacco was then worth about 75 cents a pound in Virginia . NEGRO SLAVERY . 59 persuaded more maids to come over 58 LEADING FACTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY .
... The date is sometimes , though incorrectly , given as June 30 . 6 The best tobacco was then worth about 75 cents a pound in Virginia . NEGRO SLAVERY . 59 persuaded more maids to come over 58 LEADING FACTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY .
Page 59
... slave labor . Still , for a long time the increase of negro slaves in Virginia was very slow , for many white people were sent over from England to be bound out as apprentices1 to planters for a certain number of years . Part of them ...
... slave labor . Still , for a long time the increase of negro slaves in Virginia was very slow , for many white people were sent over from England to be bound out as apprentices1 to planters for a certain number of years . Part of them ...
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