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Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 31, 1833 - February 24, 1834, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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Address On The Right Of Suffrage, Seth Luther

Pamphlets: Contemporary Assessments of the Dorr Rebellion

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Letter From George Sibley, Benjamin Reeves, & Thomas Mather To Peter Hagner, January 1, 1833, George Champlin Sibley, Benjamin Reeves, Thomas Mather

Mexican Road Commission (1825-1827)

Transcript of letter from George Sibley, Benjamin Reeves, & Thomas Mather to Peter Hagner, January 1, 1833. The beginning includes the legislation that approved the surveying of the road to New Mexico.

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An Appeal In Favor Of That Class Of Americans Called Africans, Lydia Maria Child, Paul Royster (Editor)

Electronic Texts in American Studies

The roots of white supremacy lie in the institution of negro slavery. From the 15th through the 19th century, white Europeans trafficked in abducted and enslaved Africans and justified the practice with excuses that seemed somehow to reconcile the injustice with their professed Christianity. The United States was neither the first nor the last nation to abolish slavery, but its proclaimed principles of freedom and equality were made ironic by the nation’s reluctance to extend recognition to all Americans.

“Americans” is what Mrs. Child calls those fellow countrymen of African ancestry; citizenship and equality are what she proposed beyond simple …

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Appeal To The Wealthy Of The Land, Ladies As Well As Gentlemen, On The Character, Conduct, Situation, And Prospects Of Those Whose Sole Dependence For Subsistence Is On The Labour Of Their Hands (1833), Mathew Carey, Paul Royster (Transcriber & Depositor)

Electronic Texts in American Studies

Mathew Carey’s 1833 pamphlet pleads the case of the paupers, the unemployed, and the working poor in Philadelphia and other Eastern-seaboard cities. He finds it a national disgrace that hard-working seamstresses, spoolers, hod-carriers, canal-diggers, and other manual trades cannot earn enough to support their families and that they live on the edge of economic ruin threatened by temporary unemployment, accident, or illness. He discusses the “welfare system” in both America and England (with a long discussion of the history and abuses of the English poor laws), the price of labor, the cost of living, and the numbers and condition of …

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