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... race apart , never walking in company with white persons , except as servants . There is a popular delusion in England , that New York is a sort of gingerbread - and - gilt city ; and that , contrasted with an English town , there is a ...
... race apart , never walking in company with white persons , except as servants . There is a popular delusion in England , that New York is a sort of gingerbread - and - gilt city ; and that , contrasted with an English town , there is a ...
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... race than that Anglo - Saxon one of ours . So , throughout my stay in America , I could never look upon a negro face without a strange attraction . The coloured people form so marked a contrast to everything and everybody you see around ...
... race than that Anglo - Saxon one of ours . So , throughout my stay in America , I could never look upon a negro face without a strange attraction . The coloured people form so marked a contrast to everything and everybody you see around ...
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... race . Negroes , like gipsies , are all very well as isolated figures in the social land- scape , but they are out of place as a perpetual back- ground . Still , with all this , I have often wondered at how very little the Americans I ...
... race . Negroes , like gipsies , are all very well as isolated figures in the social land- scape , but they are out of place as a perpetual back- ground . Still , with all this , I have often wondered at how very little the Americans I ...
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... race , should not afford by their conduct some excuse for their treatment , would be an unex- ampled fact in the world's history . As far as the North is concerned , the free negroes form too small a part of the population to be a ...
... race , should not afford by their conduct some excuse for their treatment , would be an unex- ampled fact in the world's history . As far as the North is concerned , the free negroes form too small a part of the population to be a ...
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... race , probably from the length and severity of its winters . Ohio and Indiana owe the large numbers of their black population to the imme- diate proximity of the Slave States . And practically , either from natural causes or from ...
... race , probably from the length and severity of its winters . Ohio and Indiana owe the large numbers of their black population to the imme- diate proximity of the Slave States . And practically , either from natural causes or from ...
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