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Phillips Russell

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More Johnson Than Franklin

Imaginary Conversations ivilh Franklin, By William Cabell Bruce. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.00, In france during the latter half of the eighteenth century, conversation, so long regarded as a mere means of communication, was elevated, am [...]

The Plowboy From Edgefield

The War Between the States did not entirely free the Negro; for in the South, as it destroyed the cage of chattel slavery, it opened wide the gates of the wage-labor system. It did, however, free a class of whites, who, between the land-holding gentr [...]