1. Race in America
Benjamin Franklin was quoted for saying "Why increase the Sons of Africa, by planting them in America, where we have so fair and opportunity, by excluding all blacks and tawneys, of increasing the lovely white or red?"... In the Douglas debates he was quoted saying "there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."... What they found when they got there were the natives they called Indians. ... (Poole 1542: 8) These words are very strong and can only make people imagine what the native ...
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