Top 3 James Oakes Quotes
#1. In some of the most heavily populated slave states - South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia - between thirty-five and fifty percent of the white families held slaves in 1860.
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#2. The reformer," Douglass explained in 1883, had "a difficult and disagreeable task before him. He has to part with old friends; break away from the beaten paths of society, and advance against the vehement protests of the most sacred sentiments of the human heart.
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#3. A Florida planter defended his management practices by pointing to his slaves' "natural increase which in the last year has been over ten percent, in a gang of 120." A Georgia overseer informed his employer that with good management his plantation could produce much more cotton.
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