... obstinate. The honorable Mr. Booth by happening to pass the time, the crowd took his attention time enough to see a sufficiency of the conflict, to prove to him, that the parties were obstinately beat on each side not to yield. Struck with the ferocious obstinacy, he stepped into the ring, parted the lads, and gave them a guinea each to make up ... them some kind of comfort and racial cushion. Not to mislead however, they were still black men at a time when being a black man meant that you were little better then third class. The one reason many blacks boxed was for the money, because o...

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