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id: 44319
author: Munsell, Ida Hamilton
title: Miss Heck's Thanksgiving Party; or, Topsy Up To Date
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flesch: 73
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summary:
  Any person with but half an eye could recognize at a glance the extraordinary character of Miss Myra Heck! But, unfortunately, Miss Myra was born of black parents away down in the sunny southland, and the dark hue of skin and wisps of woolly curls which are characteristic of the negro race have descended upon their offspring.


id: 17820
author: Delaney, Lucy A. (Lucy Ann)
title: From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom
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words: 9208
sentence: 343
flesch: 73
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  With mother, father and sister, a pleasant home and surroundings, what happier child than I! Having been brought up in a free State, mother had learned much to her advantage, which would have been impossible in a slave State, and which she now proposed to turn to account for the benefit of her daughter.


id: 38783
author: Brawley, Benjamin Griffith
title: Women of Achievement Written for the Fireside Schools
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words: 15390
sentence: 685
flesch: 71
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summary:
  Important also in this connection is the very great contribution that Negro women--very often those without education and opportunity--are making in the ordinary industrial life of the country. As Mary E. Jackson, writing in the _Crisis_, has said: Indiana reports [Negro women] in glass works; in Ohio they are found on the night shifts of glass works; they have gone into the pottery works in Virginia; wood-working plants and lumber yards have called for their help in Tennessee.


id: 584
author: Wilson, Harriet E.
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words: 25801
sentence: 1498
flesch: 82
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title:
  Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There

summary:
  As if to remove the last vestige of earthly joy, Mrs. Bellmont sold the companion and pet of Frado, the dog Fido. CHAPTER VI. VARIETIES. Frado was called in, and Susan and Mrs. B. all attempted; Mrs. B. was too weak; she did not feel able to lift so much.


id: 35045
author: Johnson, A. E. (Amelia E.)
title: The Hazeley Family
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words: 36261
sentence: 1992
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Sixteen-year-old Flora Hazeley stood by the table in the dingy little dining room, looking down earnestly and thoughtfully at a shapely, yellow sweet potato. Thus it was that Flora Hazeley changed homes.


id: 2095
author: Brown, William Wells
title: Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
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words: 42339
sentence: 1916
flesch: 77
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summary:
  Young men and women attend riding-school in our fatherland, and consider that they are studying a science. A more repulsive looking person could scarcely be found in any community of bad looking men.


id: 38029
author: Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)
title: Three Little Women: A Story for Girls
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sentence: 3066
flesch: 87
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summary:
  I want to go out; I want to go out; I want to go out, _out_, OUT! cried little Jean Carruth, pressing her face against the window-pane until from the outside her nose appeared like a bit of white paper stuck fast to the glass. I'm just a little over ten, answered Jean, looking up and answering his smile with one equally frank and trustful, for little Jean Carruth did not understand the meaning of embarrassment.


id: 472
author: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)
title: The House Behind the Cedars
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sentence: 3354
flesch: 79
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summary:
  Peter's son Frank had grown up with little Rena. Judge Straight knew the whole story, and old men are sometimes garrulous.


id: 12352
author: Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
title: Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted
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sentence: 4446
flesch: 85
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  Ole Marster died when Marse Robert war two years ole, and his pore mother when he war four. Well, Aunt Linda, I am going to teach in the Sunday-school, help in the church, hold mothers' meetings to help these boys and girls to grow up to be good men and women.


id: 16741
author: Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson)
title: Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is
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flesch: 80
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summary:
  Mr. Weston, the owner of the mansion and its adjoining plantation, arose with a dignified but cordial greeting; and Mrs. Weston, his sister-in-law, and Miss Janet, united with him in his kind reception of a valued guest and friend. Mr. Weston was a widower, with an only son; the young gentleman was at this time at Yale College.


id: 15265
author: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
title: The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel
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sentence: 7797
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Finally the Judge plucked up courage: The defendant is ordered to deliver this cotton to Zora Cresswell, he directed. I don't believe it, said Miss Cresswell, easily, as she settled down to another chocolate.


id: 55813
author: Browne, Martha Griffith
title: Autobiography of a Female Slave
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words: 137992
sentence: 7435
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Oh, de young gemman dat dey say is a courtin' Miss Jane, he hab gone back to de big town what he kum from; but Lindy say Miss Jane got a great long letter from him, and Lindy say she tink Miss Jane gwine to marry him. Well, father, said Miss Jane, whilst she stood beside Mr. Peterkin, who was accurately measuring out a certain quantity of whiskey to the three smiling slaves, who stood holding their tin cups to receive it, I am glad you succeeded in arresting that audacious runaway.


