Albert Bushnell Hart

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Few characters in history are indispensable. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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