CHAPTER X

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Slavery degrades the poor whites.—Causes and process.—Materials for mobs.—Fierce for slavery.—Influence of slavery on education.—Emigration from slave states.—N. B. Watson advertised for a hunt.—John Cornutt lynched.—No defence in law.—Justice prostrate.—Rev. E. Matthews lynched.—Case of Jesse McBride.

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