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south_carolina
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[ noun ] (geography) one of the British colonies that formed the United States
Used in print (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)New_Englanders were a_bit sensitive on the subject of their complicity in Negro slavery at the time of the drafting of the Declaration_of_Independence , as Jefferson explained in his `` Autobiography '' : `` The clause reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck_out in complaisance to South_Carolina and Georgia , who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves , and who on_the_contrary still wished to continue it . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (government,geography) a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies
Synonyms Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)The long settled areas of states like Virginia and South_Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering , and there the memory is more precious , and the consciousness of loss the greater . |
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