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Example sentences for "slave territory"

  • At a later period, in the course of the campaign, he denounced annexation and the increase of slave territory, but unfortunately it was then too late.

  • This policy, with its consequence of an enormous extension of slave territory, Mr. Webster had always vigorously and consistently opposed, and he was now thoroughly alarmed.

  • The annexation of Texas had been forced to add to the Union an enormous expanse of slave territory, capable, it was hoped, of early division into several slave States.

  • Frankly was he told of the great dangers and difficulties to be encountered through hundreds of miles of slave territory.

  • Taking her child in her arms, she sought refuge beyond the borders of slave territory.

  • Having no one to care for her, and, having been threatened with the auction-block, Sarah mustered pluck and started out in search of a new home among strangers beyond the borders of slave territory.

  • Is it quite certain that the territory south of the line will be slave territory?

  • All the territory south of the line proposed is slave territory already.

  • To alter the Missouri compromise line in relation to slave territory, and thereby convert free soil into slave soil.

  • In spite of the Ordinance of 1787, Illinois was practically a slave Territory.

  • He would not admit that the whole of Texas was bound to be a slave Territory.

  • Hitherto they had assumed that Kansas would become a slave Territory in the natural order of events.

  • Yet the Supreme Court had countenanced the view that Kansas was legally a slave Territory.

  • Through the greed of the slave power Texas was acquired, and they still longed for more slave territory, and weak Mexico alone could be depleted to obtain it.

  • California and the other Mexican acquisitions were by the war party--the slave propagandists--fore- ordained to be slave territory.

  • The whole of these thirteen Senators, constituting within a fraction, you see, one half of all the votes in this body for the admission of this immeasurable extent of slave territory, were sent here by free States.

  • I am bound to say on my conscience, that, of all the evils inflicted upon us by these acquisitions of slave territory, the North has borne its full part in the infliction.

  • Whoever wants wider slave-fields feels sure that some additional territory is needed as slave territory.

  • If he goes in and makes it a slave Territory, and by consequence a slave State, is it not time that those who desire to have it a free State were on equal ground?

  • It had been organized by Congress in 1804 as slave territory.

  • In 1803 the territory embracing Missouri had been acquired as slave territory.

  • On the east and south the State bordered on slave territory, and every part of the region was traversed by lines of travel for the slave.

  • This did not take place until nine years later, but the propaganda, the object of which was the extension of slave territory, could not be maintained by those Who contended that slavery was a curse to the country.

  • There was a shadowy prior claim to both these regions, and by combining them in this way the party avoided any odious partiality towards the acquisition of slave territory.

  • The annexation of Texas, a slave territory big as the kingdom of France, would not furl a sail on the ocean; would not stop a mill-wheel at Lowell!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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