| Preface |
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| Prologue---Beginnings |
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1 | (1) |
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Pima Creation Story (Traditional---Ancient) |
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2 | (2) |
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Dekanawida Myth and the Achievement of Iroquois Unity (ca. 1500s) |
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4 | (3) |
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Duarte Barbosa, A Description of the Coast of East Africa (1518) |
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7 | (6) |
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Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas |
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13 | (24) |
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Christopher Columbus, Letter to Luis de Sant' Angel (1493) |
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15 | (4) |
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Bartholome de Las Casas, ``Of the Island of Hispaniola'' (1542) |
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19 | (2) |
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Jacques Marquette, from The Mississippi Voyage of Joliet and Marquette (1673) |
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21 | (3) |
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Thomas Mun, from England's Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664) |
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24 | (3) |
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John Smith, ``The Starving Time'' (1624) |
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27 | (2) |
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John Winthrop, ``A Model of Christian Charity'' (1630) |
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29 | (3) |
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Excerpt from the Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637) |
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32 | (5) |
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American Society in the Making |
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37 | (22) |
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Bacon's Rebellion: The Declaration (1676) |
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39 | (3) |
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William Bull, Report on the Stono Rebellion (1739) |
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42 | (2) |
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Gottlieb Mittelberger, The Passage of Indentured Servants (1750) |
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44 | (3) |
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Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter to Her Father (1756) |
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47 | (2) |
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Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage (1788) |
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49 | (3) |
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Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade (1788) |
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52 | (3) |
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James Oglethorpe, Establishing the Colony of Georgia (1733) |
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55 | (4) |
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America in the British Empire |
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59 | (14) |
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Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crevecouer, from Letters from an American Farmer (1782) |
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61 | (2) |
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Benjamin Franklin, ``Upon Hearing George Whitefield Preach'' (1771) |
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63 | (2) |
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Jonathan Edwards, from ``Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'' (1741) |
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65 | (2) |
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John Dickinson, from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768) |
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67 | (2) |
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Address of the Inhabitants of Anson County to Governor Martin (1774) |
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69 | (4) |
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73 | (22) |
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Patrick Henry, ``Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death'' (1775) |
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75 | (3) |
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Joseph Warren, ``Account of the Battle of Lexington'' (1775) |
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78 | (3) |
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Letter from a Revolutionary War Soldier (1776) |
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81 | (3) |
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George Washington, The Newburg Address (1783) |
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84 | (3) |
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Judith Sargent Murray, ``On the Equality of the Sexes'' (1790) |
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87 | (2) |
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Molly Wallace, Valedictory Oration (1792) |
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89 | (2) |
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Slave Petition to the General Assembly in Connecticut (1779) |
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91 | (4) |
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The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant |
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95 | (18) |
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Publius (James Madison), Federalist Paper #10 (1788) |
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97 | (3) |
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George Mason, ``Objections to This Constitution of Government'' (1787) |
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100 | (2) |
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Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791) |
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102 | (2) |
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``Petition for Access to Education'' (1787) |
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104 | (2) |
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George Washington, Farewell Address (1796) |
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106 | (3) |
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The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) |
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109 | (4) |
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113 | (10) |
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Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801) |
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114 | (3) |
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Marbury v. Madison (1803) |
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117 | (2) |
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Meriwether Lewis, Journal (1805) |
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119 | (4) |
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123 | (10) |
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Tecumseh, Letter to Governor William Henry Harrison (1810) |
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125 | (2) |
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Missouri Enabling Act (1820) |
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127 | (2) |
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The Monroe Doctrine (1823) |
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129 | (4) |
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Toward a National Economy |
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133 | (10) |
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Albany Daily Advertiser on the Erie Canal (1819) |
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134 | (2) |
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The Harbinger, Female Workers of Lowell (1836) |
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136 | (3) |
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Mary Paul, Letters Home (1845, 1846) |
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139 | (4) |
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143 | (12) |
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Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress (1829) |
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145 | (2) |
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``Memorial of the Cherokee Nation'' (1830) |
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147 | (2) |
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Henry Clay, Speech Opposing President Jackson's Veto of the Bank Bill (1832) |
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149 | (3) |
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Davy Crockett, Advice to Politicians (1833) |
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152 | (3) |
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The Making of Middle-Class America |
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155 | (16) |
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Charles Finney, ``Religious Revival'' (1835) |
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157 | (3) |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Letter from Brook Farm (1841) |
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160 | (2) |
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Dorothea Dix, Appeal on Behalf of the Insane (1843) |
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162 | (2) |
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William Lloyd Garrison, from The Liberator (1831) |
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164 | (2) |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments (1848) |
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166 | (5) |
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171 | (12) |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, ``The Concord Hymn'' (1837) |
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173 | (2) |
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Henry David Thoreau, from ``Civil Disobedience'' (1849) |
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175 | (3) |
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Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) |
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178 | (5) |
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183 | (16) |
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John L. O'Sullivan, ``The Great Nation of Futurity'' (1845) |
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185 | (3) |
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Jose Maria Sanchez, from A Trip to Texas (1828) |
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188 | (2) |
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Thomas Corwin, Against the Mexican War (1847) |
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190 | (3) |
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Elizabeth Dixon Smith Greer, Journal (1847--1850) |
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193 | (2) |
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Chief Seattle, Oration (1854) |
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195 | (4) |
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The Sections Go Their Ways |
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199 | (12) |
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Nat Turner, Confession (1831) |
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200 | (2) |
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Benjamin Drew, Narratives of Escaped Slaves (1855) |
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202 | (3) |
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George Fitzhugh, ``The Blessings of Slavery'' (1857) |
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205 | (6) |
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The Coming of the Civil War |
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211 | (16) |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) |
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213 | (2) |
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The Ostend Manifesto (1854) |
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215 | (3) |
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Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) |
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218 | (2) |
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Frederick Douglass, Independence Day Speech (1852) |
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220 | (3) |
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John Brown, Address to the Virginia Court (1859) |
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223 | (4) |
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The War to Save the Union |
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227 | (16) |
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James Henry Gooding, Letter to President Lincoln (1863) |
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229 | (2) |
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Jefferson Davis, Second Inaugural Address as President of the Confederate States of America (1862) |
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231 | (3) |
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Clara Barton, Medical Life at the Battlefield (1862) |
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234 | (3) |
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Theodore A. Dodge, from Civil War Diary (1863) |
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237 | (3) |
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Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) |
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240 | (3) |
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Reconstruction and the South |
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243 | (18) |
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Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865) |
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245 | (2) |
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Mississippi Black Codes (1865) |
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247 | (3) |
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A Sharecrop Contract (1882) |
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250 | (3) |
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Congressional Testimony on the Actions of the Ku Klux Klan (1872) |
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253 | (4) |
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Civil Rights Cases (1883) |
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257 | (4) |
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