A History of American Literature
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 147 Of Thomas Wentworth Higginson little is remembered today, apart from the facts that he trained ...
148 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 placed a “higher value” on his name appearing on the Anti-Slavery Declaration than on the titl ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 149 At the same time as Whittier and his colleagues were arguing for the abolition of slavery, ano ...
150 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 called “the Southern aristocrat – the true nobleman of that region,” shows just how much he ch ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 151 the South, many of them, tended to see it in terms of feudalism – although, of course, in term ...
152 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 book. Moreland takes Albert on a trip through New England, secure in the knowledge that Albert ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 153 commentary on slavery. “I wonder if it be a sin to think slavery a curse to my land,” she muse ...
154 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 depressing beyond my powers to describe.” She would have liked, in a way, to join in: “I would ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 155 from within. This enabled her to admit that the North did not hold a monopoly on virtue. “Our ...
156 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 since there was a higher law they had to observe. “If a law commands me to sin I will break it ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 157 markets,” Sarah wrote indignantly, “to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of C ...
158 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 fruitless: Nathaniel pronounced her writing vulgar and advised her to make a living in some un ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 159 presumably, that discloses both the differences and the links between rich and poor women she ...
160 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 and she was a woman.” For Truth, both elements were a matter of profound pride, and she devote ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 161 It also vividly expressed Truth’s commitment to the related causes of black and female liberat ...
162 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 even more marked a year later, when she inaugurated her career as a public speaker with a spee ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 163 traditions, as they tell the story of a woman who worked to gain a cabin for herself and her f ...
164 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 hears Washington saying. “I am a slave ... How mean a thing am I. That accursed and crawling s ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 165 impose on black people to justify their enslavement of them. “Slavery makes its victims lying ...
166 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 because I loved him,” she tells her father. “Why should the white man be esteemed as better th ...
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