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William Davis era um minerador de carvão de Cape Breton Island. Ele nasceu em Gloucestershire, Inglaterra e foi morto por um policial durante uma ação trabalhista sindical em New Waterford, Nova Scotia. Seu nome é bem lembrado em Nova Scotia devido à observância anual do William Davis Miners' Memorial Day em reconhecimento a Davis e também a todos os mineradores mortos nas minas de carvão da província.
“All peoples part with their myths reluctantly, and historians are at some risk when they try to dismantle those of the Confederacy.”
“Legalistic Southerners tried to view the Constitution as a contract. Unfortunately, that viewpoint breaks down when viewed as a lawyer views a contract. There are very few ways to legally break a contract unilaterally.”
“So long as the number of slave states was the same as or greater than the number of free states, then in the Senate the South had a check on the government.”
“The only substantial difference between them, and the one that divided them politically almost since birth, was their system of labor.”
“Thanks to slavery, in the South capital and labor were combined in nearly four million sweating field hands picking cotton and planting rice.”
“Confederates were terrified of what was happening to slavery.”
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