William Davis was an English priest in the 17th century.
Davis was educated at the University of Oxford. He became Vicar of Chard in 1642 and canon of Wells Cathedral in 1642; and Archdeacon of Bath in 1643.
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William Davis was an English priest in the 17th century.
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“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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William Davis was an English priest in the 17th century.
Davis was educated at the University of Oxford. He became Vicar of Chard in 1642 and canon of Wells Cathedral in 1642; and Archdeacon of Bath in 1643.
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