Female heroism, and tales of the western worldWesleyan-Methodist Book-Room, 2, Castle St., City Rd., E.C., 1880 - 212 pages |
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... persons would think of looking to the un- promising soil of slavedom for examples of true hero- ism , where every form of wickedness flourishes with giant growth , and human nature is sunk to the lowest possible depths of degradation ...
... persons would think of looking to the un- promising soil of slavedom for examples of true hero- ism , where every form of wickedness flourishes with giant growth , and human nature is sunk to the lowest possible depths of degradation ...
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... persons would think of looking to the un- promising soil of slavedom for examples of true hero- ism , where every form of wickedness flourishes with giant growth , and human nature is sunk to the lowest possible depths of degradation ...
... persons would think of looking to the un- promising soil of slavedom for examples of true hero- ism , where every form of wickedness flourishes with giant growth , and human nature is sunk to the lowest possible depths of degradation ...
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... person to strike a white man under any possible provo- cation , was in slavedom a capital offence , to be atoned for only by the most sanguinary retribution . No matter though the blow was struck in resistance of the grossest imaginable ...
... person to strike a white man under any possible provo- cation , was in slavedom a capital offence , to be atoned for only by the most sanguinary retribution . No matter though the blow was struck in resistance of the grossest imaginable ...
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... succour and befriend such wayfarers as they were . The person who had discovered them on his farm was , happily for them , one of the agents of what was called " the Under- ground Railroad , " and his house was one of FEMALE HEROISM . 19.
... succour and befriend such wayfarers as they were . The person who had discovered them on his farm was , happily for them , one of the agents of what was called " the Under- ground Railroad , " and his house was one of FEMALE HEROISM . 19.
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... succour and befriend such wayfarers as they were . The person who had discovered them on his farm was , happily for them , one of the agents of what was called " the Under- ground Railroad , " and his house was one of FEMALE HEROISM . 19.
... succour and befriend such wayfarers as they were . The person who had discovered them on his farm was , happily for them , one of the agents of what was called " the Under- ground Railroad , " and his house was one of FEMALE HEROISM . 19.
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