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In the Driftway
February 3, 1926 issue

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The slavery question, as it existed before the Civil War in the U.S., shows the failure of the practical mind to handle a problem that lay a little outside its frame. Many plans to do away with slavery were proposed. One was for the government to buy all the slaves and send them back to Africa; another was to buy them and set them free wherever they were, giving each one a bit of land to start him off in life; another was to move all the white people out of the state of Texas and turn that state over to the African American, where they could develop into a nation of their own, as a vassal of the U.S.

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SLAVERY; AFRICAN diaspora; AFRICAN Americans; SLAVES; SLAVES -- Emancipation; UNITED States
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