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In the imagination of white Southerners
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there were a lot more Haitian rebels
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coming into the South than actually ever got here.
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But then if you look at the writings of New Englanders,
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by the early nineteenth century.
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Take Jedidiah Morse, for example, the great geographer.
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He called the North a, quote,
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"Happy state of mediocrity,
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a hardy race of free, independent republicans."
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And isn't that the image
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that New Englanders always want of themselves?
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They don't share anything, but they're free and independent.