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Henry Ward Beecher: A man is not blemished by deeds and indulgencies, upon a plantation, among slaves, which in the North, would strike him…

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A man is not blemished by deeds and indulgencies, upon a plantation, among slaves, which in the North, would strike him through with infamy and house him in the penitentiary.
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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher contrasts the societal acceptance of certain behaviors on plantations in the South with the severe repercussions they would face in the North.

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