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One of the reasons why Taft's opponent in the 1908 presidential race claimed that Taft was running two campaigns was because "<span>a. Taft campaigned as a progressive Republican in the West and a conservative Republican in the East," although these claims were widely contested. </span>
Many southern slave holders viewed slaves as property and they were taking care of them ... huge cotton, sugar, tobacco, ... plantations Many plantations had has generations
They started drinking vinegar, eating crushed minerals, arsenic, or mercury to try to avoid it. Sitting close to a fire also or in a sewer to drive out the fever, or fumigating the house with herbs to be able to purify the air.
