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...is essays, including ''Civil Disobedience'', ''Life Without Principle'', ''Slavery in Massachusetts'', and ''A Plea for Captain John Brown''.

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== Slavery ==

...f> The concept of the back door man as lover may also stem from the post-[[slavery]] phenomenon of the [[sweet back papas]]. These were men who dodged a lifet

...orld Slavery'' (1998), 456pp [http://www.amazon.com/Historical-Guide-World-Slavery/dp/0195120914/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197165161&sr=8-1 excerpt and * Finkelman, Paul, and Joseph Miller eds. ''Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery'' (1998)

...e and their difficulty in assimilating into society after being freed from slavery.

...rt of the Compromise of 1850 and hostility to any efforts to agitate the [[slavery]] question. But they balloted 48 times and eliminated all of the well-known ...s, who accused him of acting as a cat's-paw of Southerners eager to extend slavery into other areas. Therefore, he aroused apprehension when he pressured the

...]], and also in states and territories such as Kentucky and Missouri where slavery had in danger of becoming established before that war. [[Mississippi (U.S.

...arity of language, and cogency of argument about why Virginia adopted both slavery (for blacks) and freedom (for whites). Two early books, ''Birth of the Repu

* Williams, Heather Andrea. ''Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom'' U of North Carolina Press, 2006 * Finley, Randy. ''From Slavery to Uncertain Future: the Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas, 1865-1869'' U. of A

* Cimprich, John. ''Slavery's End in Tennessee, 1861-1865'' University of Alabama, 1985. ISBN 08173118

...), was an American historian, lawyer, journalist, novelist, reformer, anti-slavery activist, and philosopher. He is best known for his well-researched, highly ...ter retitled and revised) and made notes for a polemical-critical essay on slavery, published in 1840 as ''Despotism in America'', which gained him some fame

...whether or not to permit slavery. Because of this compromise with the pro-slavery wing of the Democratic Party, the [[Free-Soil Democrats]] ([[Barnburner|Bar ...1850]] and the [[Fugitive Slave Law]]. Because of these votes and his pro-slavery allegiances and because Michigan was then solidly controlled by the [[Repub

...y the industrial revolution underway in the North. On the whole plantation slavery was not very profitable, he said, had about reached its limits in 1860, and ...vided North and South, Phillips made the economics and social structure of slavery the main theme in 20th century scholarship. Together with his highly eloque

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...h [[colonialism]], as the land was taken over for [[plantation]]s, using [[slavery|slaves]]. The majority of the Caribbean population today are descended from

* Finkelman, Paul. "Slavery and the Constitutional Convention: Making a Covenant with Death," in Richar ...ery and the Debate over Ratification of the United States Constitution." ''Slavery & Abolition'' 2001 22(3): 40-65. Issn: 0144-039x Fulltext: in Ingenta

...rn in 1819 which sourced politics in some states, especially Kentucky. The slavery issue flared and was resolved by the [[Missouri Compromise]]. Neither issue

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