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... less cause than the loss of our forecastle , with six guns , and our anchors ( all but one that was fastened to a cable ) together with our two cooks , whereof one was recovered by a strange providence . This great gap , made by want of ...
... less cause than the loss of our forecastle , with six guns , and our anchors ( all but one that was fastened to a cable ) together with our two cooks , whereof one was recovered by a strange providence . This great gap , made by want of ...
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... less pressure than our own to turn every thing to gold . In Brazil , where Slavery exists in connection with a race and govern- ment far behind any that it can find in the United States , it is less out of place , and need not use much ...
... less pressure than our own to turn every thing to gold . In Brazil , where Slavery exists in connection with a race and govern- ment far behind any that it can find in the United States , it is less out of place , and need not use much ...
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... less victim was as natural to us as it was to the negroes themselves ; and , as night after night we would hurry up to the great house through the darkness , we were ever on the watch lest he should ap- pear to our frighted vision from ...
... less victim was as natural to us as it was to the negroes themselves ; and , as night after night we would hurry up to the great house through the darkness , we were ever on the watch lest he should ap- pear to our frighted vision from ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
GEORGE MASON 17251792 | 17 |
JOHN RANDOLPH 17731833 | 19 |
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