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  • Negroes and Negro "Slavery:" the first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition.

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by J. H. Van Evrie ...
    Series series
    Excerpt: "So 'stands the ease between the sections. If the anti slavery party was based on truth - if the negro, except in color, was a man like ourselves - if social subordination of this negro was wrong, and the four millions of these people at the South entitled to the same liberty as ourselves and if the men who made this government designed it to include them". This edition has been fully ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Negroes and Negro "Slavery:" the first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition.

    by J. H. Van Evrie ...
    Since the first edition of this work was issued, startling and deplorable events have occurred. The great “Anti-Slavery” delusion, that originated with European monarchists more than fifty years ago, has culminated in disunion and civil war, as its authors always predicted it would. A party strongly imbued with the false theories and absurd assumptions of British writers and abolition societies, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Business of Bigotry

    John Van Evrie's Nineteenth-Century Racist Media Empire

    by Michael E. Woods ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Amid nineteenth-century America’s fierce battles over slavery and freedom, few proslavery partisans argued more vehemently for the supremacy of the white race than John Van Evrie (1814–96). A New York–based propagandist, writer, book publisher, and editor of the New York Day Book, Van Evrie leveraged the era’s rapidly expanding media and communications landscape to advance his cause. Throughout ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • The Portable Thomas Jefferson

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  • Thomas Jefferson: Writings (LOA #17)

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