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It proves to them that the candidate will treat that meaningless scrap of paper authored by a bunch of slave-holding DWEMs 200 years ago with the proper total lack of respect they believe it deserves.
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For the museum sits on the north shore of the Ohio River, the dividing line set forth by the Northwest Ordinance in 1787, which attempted to balance the entry of free and slave-holding states into the union.
Behind the Dividing Line of Slavery Mark Yost 2011
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He came to the United States in order to fight in the Civil War against the slave-holding South.
James Peron: Know Nothings and Immigrants: Some Things Never Change James Peron 2011
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It proves to them that the candidate will treat that meaningless scrap of paper authored by a bunch of slave-holding DWEMs 200 years ago with the proper total lack of respect they believe it deserves.
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This “hopeless minority of the slave-holding states” endangered property rights.
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He came to the United States in order to fight in the Civil War against the slave-holding South.
James Peron: Know Nothings and Immigrants: Some Things Never Change James Peron 2011
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But Maryland and the rest of the slave-holding South had reason to be scared.
The Novel That Changed America Fergus M. Bordewich 2011
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Answering the South Carolina secession convention's call to join it in "a great Slaveholding Confederacy, stretching its arms over a territory larger than any power in Europe possesses," 11 slave-holding states soon withdrew from the Union to form the Confederate States of America.
How America's Civil War Changed the World Fergus M. Bordewich 2011
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Liberals couldn't help but notice the parallels with the slave-holding plantation owners in the American South, said Andrei Yanovsky, a co-curator of the archive exhibit.
Russia remembers Lincoln as it marks the freeing of the serfs 2011
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“Original Intent” is to be taken literally, viz., a racially and religiously segregated slave-holding oligarchic Republic.
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