Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher StoweAn absorbingly interesting portrait of a personality and an age. |
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Page 246
... summer of 1852. By that time great things had happened . He could consider himself a rich man . Meanwhile , though his prospects were so bright in the summer of 1850 , his family faced the brutal fact that for a long time it would have ...
... summer of 1852. By that time great things had happened . He could consider himself a rich man . Meanwhile , though his prospects were so bright in the summer of 1850 , his family faced the brutal fact that for a long time it would have ...
Page 267
... summer , as federal prosecutors tried to indict for treason persons who flouted the Fugitive Slave Law , and the discredited Webster was thundering , " This agitation must cease ! " And there were family events to claim a share of ...
... summer , as federal prosecutors tried to indict for treason persons who flouted the Fugitive Slave Law , and the discredited Webster was thundering , " This agitation must cease ! " And there were family events to claim a share of ...
Page 589
... summer and have roses , strawberries , blackberries , and green peas come again . " It was an early departure for them ; but the Christian Union was about ready for her serial , and she did not want to trust her manuscript to the mails ...
... summer and have roses , strawberries , blackberries , and green peas come again . " It was an early departure for them ; but the Christian Union was about ready for her serial , and she did not want to trust her manuscript to the mails ...
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