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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 110 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 42 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 24 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 16 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 16 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 14 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource] 14 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 12 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 12 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
be premised that slavery existed in ancient times, not only under the Jewish dispensation, when it had at least the sanction of the Divine Law-giver, for a time, but in almost every country of the ancient world. It not only existed, but there was an accredited error, somewhat akin to that which has been reproduced in late years, that slaves were an inferior race, degraded by their Creator himself, marked by a stamp of humiliation, and predestines to their stateof abjection and debasement. Homer, Plato and Aristotle distinctly taught this doctrine. All readers of history are well aware of the excessive rigor and cruelty with which slaves were treated in ancient times. Even the right of life and death, which was then placed in the master's hands, was often exercised. The slavery of ancient times was not only cruel, but immense beyond our conception, prevailing everywhere, and so deeply rooted in laws, manners, ideas and interests, individuals social, that its immediate eradica