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...main industry of the cotton States was thought to depend on slave labor. The demands of slave labor were two: economic and political. Economically its productions must be free from criticism, and politically it must be protected against social criticism and humanitarian reform. To enforce these demands the representatives of the plantation interest had to do more than stand on the defensive; they had to take the lead of the nation. In this way the whole tendency of American thought and life was for a long time withstood...
...southernmost parts of the Union up to the time of the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and will discuss the civilization of the cotton states under the slavery regime. Particular attention will be given to the topics discussed and the reasoning employed in such books as Cairnes's "Slave Power" and Von Holst's "Constitutional History." It will be the lecturer's aim to make plain the effects of slavery and the plantation system on the people of the cotton states and the causes which gave these states the hege mony of the South and a marked ascendency in the Union...
...Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America. By W. E. B. DuBois '90, Ph.D., Professor in Wilberforce University. Published...
...light that shall show the way out. Every where the growth of Christianity has been a steady progress toward freedom. The essential beauty of civilization is charity. Freedom is the essential thing of civilization. Now freedom has brought no more substantial result than the substitution of free labor for slave. Nevertheless the industrial system based upon freedom contains within itself elements which threaten its existence. The adjustment of the demands of the free laborer is the chief problem of humanity today and the Pope's Encyclical, points the solution...
...paper of Mr. Russell will be the result of original studies made during an extended residence among the Indians in the region of the Great Slave Lake...