385 The Gettysburg Address
The History of Literature
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Pericles's Abolition of Slavery Is Central to It. It's Central to It
Listen to the sound as well as the meaning, and then we'll talk about it in a larger sense. Lincoln says, our work is not done. We owe it to these soldiers to make their sacrifice worth while. And what cause did they die for? What cause is worth the blood that has been shed on this battlefield? Not the taking of a field or the repelling of the rebel forces back across the potomac,. No not just that. These boys died for a cause. Abolition of slavery is not just a political position. It's part of what they died for. The nation began as a pro ect dedicated to liberty, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that
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