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... Virginia in the middle of the last century . Virginian society , as it existed at that period , is utterly extinct . John Randolph said it had departed before the year 1800. Since then another century , with all its manifold changes ...
... Virginia in the middle of the last century . Virginian society , as it existed at that period , is utterly extinct . John Randolph said it had departed before the year 1800. Since then another century , with all its manifold changes ...
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... Virginia has been swept away in the crash of civil war , which has opened a gulf between past and present wider and deeper than any that time alone could make . Life and society as they existed in the Virginia of the eighteenth century ...
... Virginia has been swept away in the crash of civil war , which has opened a gulf between past and present wider and deeper than any that time alone could make . Life and society as they existed in the Virginia of the eighteenth century ...
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... Virginia , advancing toward half a million , and divided pretty equally between the free whites and the enslaved blacks , was densest , to use a most inappropriate word , at the water's edge and near the mouths of the rivers . Thence it ...
... Virginia , advancing toward half a million , and divided pretty equally between the free whites and the enslaved blacks , was densest , to use a most inappropriate word , at the water's edge and near the mouths of the rivers . Thence it ...
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... Virginia got from across the sea , for travellers were practically unknown . Few came on business , fewer still from curiosity . Stray peddlers from the North , or trap- pers from beyond the mountains with their packs of furs , chiefly ...
... Virginia got from across the sea , for travellers were practically unknown . Few came on business , fewer still from curiosity . Stray peddlers from the North , or trap- pers from beyond the mountains with their packs of furs , chiefly ...
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... Virginia , for the mass was but an appendage of the small fraction which ruled , led , and did the thinking for the whole community . Half the people were slaves , and in that single wretched word their his- tory is told . They were ...
... Virginia , for the mass was but an appendage of the small fraction which ruled , led , and did the thinking for the whole community . Half the people were slaves , and in that single wretched word their his- tory is told . They were ...
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