# bib

id: 22084
author: Creswell, John A. J. (John Angel James)
title: Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 11227
sentence: 420
flesch: 62
cache: cache/22084.txt
txt: txt/22084.txt
summary:
  This man, so stern and inflexible in the execution of a purpose, so rigorous in his demands of other men in behalf of a principle, so indifferent to preferment and all base objects of pursuit, had a monitor to whom he always gave an open ear and a prompt assent. The sword may rust in its scabbard, and so let it; but free men, with free thought and free speech, will wage unceasing war until truth shall be enthroned and sit empress of the world.


id: 2050
author: Hawkins, Walter
title: Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 14919
sentence: 636
flesch: 75
cache: cache/2050.txt
txt: txt/2050.txt
summary:
  'My friend,' says a plain-looking countryman--no other than John Brown himself--on the outskirts of the throng, 'you talk very brave; and as you will never have a better opportunity to shoot old Brown than right here and now, you can have a chance.' As to John Brown himself, his friend F. B. Sanborn's LIFE AND LETTERS is a mine of wealth.


id: 10986
author: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)
title: Frederick Douglass A Biography
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 22320
sentence: 898
flesch: 63
cache: cache/10986.txt
txt: txt/10986.txt
summary:
  From this night of slavery Douglass emerged, passed through the limbo of prejudice which he encountered as a freeman, and took his place in history. Frederick Douglass was born in February, l8l7,--as nearly as the date could be determined in after years, when it became a matter of public interest,--at Tuckahoe, near Easton, Talbot County, on the eastern shore of Maryland, a barren and poverty-stricken district, which possesses in the birth of Douglass its sole title to distinction.


id: 26123
author: Beecher, Catharine Esther
title: An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 27213
sentence: 886
flesch: 55
cache: cache/26123.txt
txt: txt/26123.txt
summary:
  They will make laws so unjust and oppressive, not only to slaves, but to their Abolitionist advocates, that by degrees such men will withdraw from their bounds. And they claim that they shall succeed in making that city break off its sins, by these measures, because other men succeeded in banishing intemperance by labouring among their own friends and fellow citizens.


id: 10401
author: Drayton, Daniel
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 34376
sentence: 1249
flesch: 67
cache: cache/10401.txt
txt: txt/10401.txt
title:
  Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (for Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail Including a Narrative of the Voyage and Capture of the Schooner Pearl

summary:
  It was desired to make us out guilty of a penitentiary offence at the least; and for that purpose recourse was had to an old, forgotten act of Maryland, passed in the year 1737, the fourth section of which provided That any person or persons who, after the said tenth day of September [1737], shall steal any ship, sloop, or other vessel whatsoever, out of any place within the body of any county within this province, of seventeen feet or upwards by the keel, and shall carry the same ten miles or upwards from the place whence it shall be stolen, _or who shall steal any negro or other slave_, or who shall counsel, hire, aid, abet, or command any person or persons to commit the said offences, or who shall be accessories to the said offences, and shall be thereof legally convicted as aforesaid, or outlawed, or who shall obstinately or of malice stand mute, or peremptorily challenge above twenty, shall suffer death as a felon, or felons, and be excluded the benefit of the clergy. It provided That any person or persons who shall hereafter be convicted of giving a pass to any slave, or person held to service, or shall be found to assist, by advice, donation or loan, or otherwise, the transporting of any slave or any person held to service, from this state, or by any other unlawful means depriving a master or owner of the service of his slave or person held to service, for every such offence the party aggrieved shall recover damages in an action on the case, against such offender or offenders, and such offender or offenders shall also be liable, upon indictment, and conviction upon verdict, confession or otherwise, in this state, in any county court where such offence shall happen, to be fined a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court, one-half to the use of the master or owner of such slave, the other half to the county school, if there be any; if there be no such school, to the use of the county.


id: 23
author: Douglass, Frederick
title: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 41248
sentence: 1969
flesch: 77
cache: cache/23.txt
txt: txt/23.txt
summary:
  Many, under the influence of this prejudice, think their own masters are better than the masters of other slaves; and this, too, in some cases, when the very reverse is true. I know of such cases; and it is worthy of remark that such slaves invariably suffer greater hardships, and have more to contend with, than others.


id: 13176
author: Hume, John F. (John Ferguson)
title: The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights, 1830-1864
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 56704
sentence: 2767
flesch: 68
cache: cache/13176.txt
txt: txt/13176.txt
summary:
  The following is an extract from Theodore Roosevelt's biography of Thomas H. Benton in Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.'s American Statesmen Series, published in 1887: Owing to a variety of causes, the Abolitionists have received an immense amount of hysterical praise which they do not deserve, and have been credited with deeds done by other men whom, in reality, they hampered and opposed rather than aided. Mr. Lincoln had his weaknesses and limitations, like other men.


id: 37191
author: Kennedy, William Sloane
title: John Greenleaf Whittier: His Life, Genius, and Writings
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 64477
sentence: 2931
flesch: 71
cache: cache/37191.txt
txt: txt/37191.txt
summary:
  The poetry of Mr. Whittier is a complete autobiography. Read the poetry of Mr. Whittier, and you have no need to ask what kind of man produced it.


id: 11454
author: Sturge, Joseph
title: A Visit to the United States in 1841
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 105443
sentence: 3314
flesch: 55
cache: cache/11454.txt
txt: txt/11454.txt
summary:
  I have recently learned that they are negotiating the purchase of the liberty of other slaves, who formerly belonged to Colonel Fitzhugh. The mistress of the Eagle Hotel sat at her table as a queen, surrounded by many slaves.


id: 31406
author: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)
title: Cudjo's Cave
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 116135
sentence: 7851
flesch: 87
cache: cache/31406.txt
txt: txt/31406.txt
summary:
  Mr. Villars, however, blind and venerated old man, had sufficient influence over the people, Penn believed, to serve as a protection to his household even with him in it. Toby says that poor old man, Mr. Ellerton, who assisted you to escape, was caught and hung by some of the soldiers yesterday.


