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What role did race play in O'Sullivan understanding of "manifest destiny"

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Answer: O'Sullivan makes this his views on race explicit in "Annexation," his article urging the United States to annex Texas. O'Sullivan, like many other Americans, saw expansion as a means of ridding the United States of slavery (or, more accurately, African-American enslaved people.)

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