"Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves."

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Source : Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

Albert Bushnell Hart

#Cutting Quotes #Slave Quotes #Legislature Quotes

“I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.”
“To reason about love is to lose reason.”
“The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.”
“I discovered that forgiveness is a path to freedom.”
“Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men.”
“It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares”
“Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent and clever, is really only pleasing to himself and a small handful of others. The world passes him by and beckons to life and beauty ... to gay and handsome creatures to whom the hearts of their fellow men continue to turn.”
“I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.”

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