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This 1908 biography of the vice president of the Confederacy was written by a native Georgian. Though he was often quite ill, Stephens was described as "the Strongest Man in the South." The book is part of the American Crisis series, devoted to important historical figures on both sides of the Civil War. The series' objective was to paint the Civil War as a great event in American history, and not simply the fault of a rebellious South.
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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity...
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