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id: 17820
author: Delaney, Lucy A. (Lucy Ann)
title: From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom
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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: 15118
author: Lane, Lunsford
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title:
  The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. Embracing an account of his early life, the redemption by purchase of himself and family from slavery, and his banishment from the place of his birth for the crime of wearing a colored skin

summary:
  But grace (of course) had not wrought in the same _manner_ upon the heart of Mr. Smith, as nature had done upon that of Mr. Boylan, who made no religious profession. Mr. Boylan, whose name has repeatedly occurred in this publication, was more than a father to me; and Mr. Smith and Mr. Loring, and many other gentlemen, whose names it would give me pleasure to mention, were exceedingly kind.


id: 20005
author: Davis, Noah
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title:
  A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man Written by Himself, At The Age of Fifty-Four

summary:
  Several other colored brethren, about this time, gave evidence of having been called of God, to the work of preaching the gospel. The failing health of my dear brother, J. C. Crane,[A] and the want of his invaluable co-operation with me, as well as the lack of hearty, zealous assistance on the part of many other brethren and friends, has been painful to me.


id: 8872
author: Schurz, Carl
title: Report on the Condition of the South
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words: 83656
sentence: 2941
flesch: 57
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  If negroes walked away from the plantations, it was conclusive proof of the incorrigible instability of the negro, and the impracticability of free negro labor. If some individual negroes violated the terms of their contract, it proved unanswerably that no negro had, or ever would have, a just conception of the binding force of a contract, and that this system of free negro labor was bound to be a failure.


id: 38479
author: Child, Lydia Maria
title: The Freedmen's Book
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sentence: 4112
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summary:
  In Boston they were introduced to William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Francis Jackson, Rev. Theodore Parker, and other good men, who had for years been laboring for the emancipation of the slaves. But the education they get at school is also very important; and it will be wise and kind in you to buy such books as they need, and encourage them in every way to become good scholars, as well as good men.


id: 23321
author: Flickinger, Robert Elliott
title: The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy
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  The Presbyterian church throughout all its history has been the friend and patron of learning and inasmuch as the evangelistic work among the Indians and Freedmen, has been largely dependent on school work for permanent results, it began to establish schools among the Indians at a very early date. SCHOOL AND WORK PERIODS Provision is made for eight hours of school work on the part of the teachers, the first five days of every week of the term, and one hour on Saturday evening.


id: 6058
author: Tourgée, Albion Winegar
title: Bricks Without Straw: A Novel
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  Den I axed de man dat bought de cotting ter gib it back ter me, but he wouldn't do dat, nohow, nor de money for it nuther. There was even then of record in the county of Horsford a deed of sale, bearing the hand and seal of P, Desmit, and executed little more than a year previously, conveying to one Peyton Winburn all the right, title, and interest of said Desmit, in and to a certain runaway negro boy named Nimbus.


id: 7295
author: Haviland, Laura S. (Laura Smith)
title: A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland
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summary:
  Said my son Harvey, It shall be done, if I sit by her every minute to-night. It's all humbug; and I sha'n't stir a step until I see Mrs. Haviland. Said another: These things look queer.


