From Superman to ManThe author attacks the notion of racial superiority through a novel that revolves around a debate between a Pullman porter and a white racist politician. |
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... slavery in the North , but it didn't pay and so you gave it up . Wasn't your pedantic and self - righteous Massachu- setts , the first to legalize slavery ? A matter of climate that's all . Climes reversed , it would have been the South ...
... slavery in the North , but it didn't pay and so you gave it up . Wasn't your pedantic and self - righteous Massachu- setts , the first to legalize slavery ? A matter of climate that's all . Climes reversed , it would have been the South ...
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... slavery a sign of the Negro's hope- less inferiority ? My father owned hundreds of slaves . " Dixon noticed the passenger's increased agita- tion and determined to be calmer than ever , replied with a blandness that exasperated the ...
... slavery a sign of the Negro's hope- less inferiority ? My father owned hundreds of slaves . " Dixon noticed the passenger's increased agita- tion and determined to be calmer than ever , replied with a blandness that exasperated the ...
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... slaves in Virginia . Black and white slaves used to work together in the fields in Barbadoes . Indeed , it would be quite possible to find white persons living in this country who were born in a condition just one remove from actual slavery ...
... slaves in Virginia . Black and white slaves used to work together in the fields in Barbadoes . Indeed , it would be quite possible to find white persons living in this country who were born in a condition just one remove from actual slavery ...
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