Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher StoweAn absorbingly interesting portrait of a personality and an age. |
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... already re- garded as an old maid . She was prim , methodical , and a little cranky , with a horror of dirt , disorder , and waste . Her brass andirons showed no finger- prints , her red and green parlour carpet was fleckless , the ...
... already re- garded as an old maid . She was prim , methodical , and a little cranky , with a horror of dirt , disorder , and waste . Her brass andirons showed no finger- prints , her red and green parlour carpet was fleckless , the ...
Page 130
... already an adherent to Colonization . Young Weld's arguments convinced him so thoroughly of the error of Colonization that he liberated his slaves and moved back to his birthplace , Danville , Kentucky , to devote the rest of his life ...
... already an adherent to Colonization . Young Weld's arguments convinced him so thoroughly of the error of Colonization that he liberated his slaves and moved back to his birthplace , Danville , Kentucky , to devote the rest of his life ...
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... already in the accents of defeat . We shall resist it by speech and vote and with all the abilities which God has given us . Even if overcome in the impending struggle , we shall not submit . We shall go home to our constituents , erect ...
... already in the accents of defeat . We shall resist it by speech and vote and with all the abilities which God has given us . Even if overcome in the impending struggle , we shall not submit . We shall go home to our constituents , erect ...
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