author: philip s foner

Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

... A treacherous President stood in the way; and it can be easily seen how reluctant good men might be to admit an apostasy which involved so much of baseness and ingratitude. It was natural that they should seek to save him by bending to ...

The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism Vol. 2: 1898–1902

... crush the Chinese uprising , divide up their country , and at the same time ... drums to " rush the establishment of civil gov ernment " in Cuba . He ... endorsed overseas expansion , and called for the suppression of the " insurrection ...

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