Statistics for occurrence #1 of “United States” in chapter 2.14, page 213 of Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2:
...rd to the relation of the United States to the freedmen; the logical result of those views was that under my circular letter the negro had merely changed masters from the Southern slave owners to the United States ; they implied that the Government should support the emancipated even
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