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" For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another... "
An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the ... - Page 201
by William Winterbotham - 1796 - 493 pages
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American History Told by Contemporaries: National expansion, 1783-1845

Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1902 - 712 pages
...any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another : in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavours to the evanishment of the human race, or entail his own miserable condition on the endless...
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American Literature, 1764-1789: The Revolutionary Years

Everett H. Emerson - American literature - 1977 - 328 pages
...unnatural hatred of his native land, for "if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another. ' ' But the pernicious effects extend beyond master and slave and endanger the entire national existence:...
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In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process. The Colonial Period

A. Leon Higginbotham - History - 1980 - 548 pages
...the amor patriae of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another; in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends...
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The Word in Black and White: Reading "Race" in American Literature, 1638-1867

Dana D. Nelson - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 208 pages
...precisely as opposed to the slave. While he observes the moral degradation suffered by the slave ("he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavours to the evanishment of the human race, or entail his own miserable condition on the endless...
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Jeffersonian Legacies

Peter S. Onuf - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 500 pages
...notion of a proper manumission: "If a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another." Jefferson supported colonization even as he understood that the cost of moving so many people to Africa...
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A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate Over the Constitution

John P. Kaminski, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for the Study of the American Constitution - History - 1995 - 310 pages
...the amor patriae of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another: in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavours...
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The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800

Conor Cruise O'Brien - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 390 pages
...the amor patriae of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another: in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavours...
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The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800

Conor Cruise O'Brien - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 390 pages
...any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another: in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavours to the evanishment of the human race, or entail his own miserable condition on the endless...
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The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction

Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - American literature - 1997 - 608 pages
...the amarpatriae of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another; in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends...
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Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure

Mark E. Brandon - History - 1998 - 278 pages
...which slaves found themselves: For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another: in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends...
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