... the Germans and Jews, and the ethnic diversity among the Europeans proved to be a tempering cultural influence just as it does today. Yet the experience of African slaves and the Native American Indians starkly contrasts with that of the European immigrant groups, and describes a second, darker facet to American culture that still exists today. Beginning around 1680, the practice of slavery ... Puritan fundamentalist doctrine, mismanagement of the Anglican church, and continued persecution of Catholics further depressed the spirituality of Americans during this period. Africans suffered...

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... warned would be the ruin of any man who used his profits in such frivolity. At thirty-three Franklin published the first Poor Richard's Almanac, a collection, effectively, of his own quotes, assembled under the pseudonym Richard Saunders'. Franklin used the character Poor Richard', after the alleged author, to personify the moral codes and work ethics he wished to enforce on other ... ...

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... a quote by Engels, writing in 1893 why there was "No Large Socialist Party in America" as follows: "Then and more especially, immigration, which divides the workers into two groups: The native born and the foreigners, and the latter into the Irish, the Germans, the many small groups, each of which understands only itself: Czechs, Poles, Italians, Scandinavians, etc. And then the ... ...

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