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id: 34915
author: Douglass, Frederick
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title:
  Abolition Fanaticism in New York Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore, at an Abolition Meeting in New York, Held May 11, 1847

summary:
  I cannot, however, my friends, dwell upon this anti-Prejudice, or rather the many illustrations of the absence of Prejudice against Color in England--but will proceed, at once, to defend the Right and Duty of invoking English aid and English sympathy for the overthrow of American Slavery, for the education of Colored Americans, and to forward in every way, the interests of humanity; inasmuch as the right of appealing to England for aid in overthrowing Slavery in this country, has been called in question, in public meetings and by the press, in this city. But in regard to American Slavery it is not so.


id: 7100
author: Twain, Mark
title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05
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words: 9040
sentence: 479
flesch: 93
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summary:
  WELL, I got a good going-over in the morning from old Miss Watson on account of my clothes; but the widow she didn't scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave awhile if I could. YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.


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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summary:
  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: 28021
author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
title: Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin
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words: 9300
sentence: 454
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Mr. Shelby lost his money, and got in debt to a man who dealt in slaves; for that debt he sold little Harry to him, and the rest of it was paid with poor Tom. From his master, by wicked trader bought; And he will carry poor Tom next day, From children, and wife, and home away.


id: 7102
author: Twain, Mark
title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15
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sentence: 673
flesch: 94
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summary:
  Yes, says I, and other times, when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off. But before night they changed around and judged it was done by a runaway nigger named Jim.


id: 7104
author: Twain, Mark
title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 21 to 25
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summary:
  And look at Charles Second, and Louis Fourteen, and Louis Fifteen, and James Second, and Edward Second, and Richard Third, and forty more; besides all them Saxon heptarchies that used to rip around so in old times and raise Cain. You don't know kings, Jim, but I know them; and this old rip of ourn is one of the cleanest I've struck in history.


id: 7101
author: Twain, Mark
title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 06 to 10
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words: 13704
sentence: 699
flesch: 94
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summary:
  Then he studied it over and said, couldn't I put on some of them old things and dress up like a girl? Yes, and I TOLD 'em so; I told old Thatcher so to his face.


id: 7106
author: Twain, Mark
title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 31 to 35
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words: 14163
sentence: 715
flesch: 92
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summary:
  Tom had his store clothes on, and an audience--and that was always nuts for Tom Sawyer. I set up a shout--and then another--and then another one; and run this way and that in the woods, whooping and screeching; but it warn't no use--old Jim was gone.


id: 7105
author: Twain, Mark
title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 26 to 30
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words: 14758
sentence: 709
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Said it warn't no fair test. Said his brother William was the cussedest joker in the world, and hadn't tried to write --HE see William was going to play one of his jokes the minute he put the pen to paper.


id: 13989
author: Child, Lydia Maria
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words: 13465
sentence: 698
flesch: 76
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title:
  The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act An Appeal To The Legislators Of Massachusetts, Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 9

summary:
  If not _through_ law, why then _ Men satisfied themselves by saying it was all done according to _law_.


id: 11171
author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
title: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition
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words: 17206
sentence: 1392
flesch: 99
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summary:
  He went to his cousin, Miss Ophelia St. Clare, and begged her to come and keep house for him, and to look after Eva. Poor Uncle Tom found that he had quite forgotten how to make some of the letters.


id: 7107
author: Twain, Mark
title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to the Last
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words: 18991
sentence: 796
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Said we'd got to post Jim first. Jim says: Why, Mars Tom, I hain't got no coat o' arm; I hain't got nuffn but dish yer ole shirt, en you knows I got to keep de journal on dat.


id: 7103
author: Twain, Mark
title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 16 to 20
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words: 19136
sentence: 868
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Said he swum along behind me that night, and heard me yell every time, but dasn't answer, because he didn't want nobody to pick HIM up and take him into slavery again. I reckon that old man was a coward, Buck.


id: 15132
author: Brown, William Wells
title: Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
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words: 20936
sentence: 1020
flesch: 83
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summary:
  We made our first stop at Vicksburg, where we remained one week and sold several slaves. slaves have no father.


id: 15128
author: Green, J. D. (Jacob D.)
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sentence: 627
flesch: 67
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title:
  Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848

summary:
  Old master went to preach one day, Next day he looked for me; I greased my heels and ran away, For the land of liberty. I heard old master pray one night, That night he prayed for me, That God would come with all his might, From Satan set me free.


id: 9941
author: Thompson, Charles
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sentence: 890
flesch: 75
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title:
  Biography of a Slave, Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson, a Preacher of the United Brethren Church, While a Slave in the South. Together with Startling Occurrences Incidental to Slave Life.

summary:
  If those are faults, as considered by Mr. Wilson, I am very well satisfied that you will perform your part of the contract notwithstanding; yet what Mr. Wilson is pleased to consider faults in you I deem good points in your character and disposition, therefore I will hire you, hoping that your duty to God will include your duty to me under the contract of hire. Mr. Thompson was a wealthy planter and kept a general overseer, besides the usual field bosses; yet there were other slaves on the plantation who had the confidence of the master and were put at such service as required intelligence and integrity.


id: 13990
author: May, Samuel
title: The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18
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words: 22957
sentence: 1173
flesch: 72
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summary:
  Surrendered by Edward D. Ingraham, United States Commissioner. Two alleged slaves arrested_ at _Columbia, Penn._, on warrant of United States Commissioner McAllister,--claimed as property of W.T. McDermott, of Baltimore.


id: 17851
author: Prince, Mary
title: The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave
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words: 27639
sentence: 1093
flesch: 74
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summary:
  She is such a termagant, it seems, that if she once gets back to the colony _free_, she will not only make it too hot for poor Mr. Wood, but the police and courts of justice will scarce be a match for her! Mr. Wood did not then want to purchase me; it was my own fault that I came under him, I was so anxious to go.


id: 15130
author: Pennington, James W. C.
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sentence: 1144
flesch: 74
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title:
  The Fugitive Blacksmith or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States

summary:
  There are frequently large slave families with whom God seems to deal in a remarkable manner. Can the pride of leaving your children possessed of long slave states, or the policy of sustaining in the state the institution of slavery, justify you in overlooking a point of moment to your future happiness?


id: 31424
author: Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gideon)
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sentence: 1748
flesch: 76
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title:
  Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave: Held in Boston, in February, 1851.

summary:
  When Mr. Riley was clearing the room, Shadrach pointed out Mr. Davis as one of his counsel, and as such Mr. Riley allowed him to stay. Mr. Davis gave bail for his appearance.


id: 59500
author: Brown, William Wells
title: Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Second Edition
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words: 31850
sentence: 1514
flesch: 80
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summary:
  397. Sec. 35 and 36.--Any free colored person found with slaves in a kitchen, outhouse or negro quarter, without a written permission from the master or overseer of said slaves, and any slave found without such permission with a free negro on his premises, shall receive fifteen lashes for the first offence, and thirty-nine for each subsequent offence; to be inflicted by master, overseer, or member of any patrol company.--p. If any slave, who shall be out of the house or plantation where such slave shall live, or shall be usually employed, or without some white person in company with such slave, shall _refuse to submit_ to undergo the examination of _any white_ person, it shall be lawful for such white person to pursue, apprehend, and moderately correct such slave and if such slave shall assault and strike such white person, such slave may be _lawfully killed_!!--_2 Brevard's Digest_, 231. MISSISSIPPI.


id: 10401
author: Drayton, Daniel
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flesch: 67
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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: 49129
author: Henson, Josiah
title: Father Henson's Story of His Own Life Truth Stranger Than Fiction
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sentence: 1696
flesch: 74
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summary:
  The overseer seized my horse's bridle, and ordered me to alight, in the usual elegant phraseology addressed by such men to slaves. They encouraged me in my business enterprise, and the approval of such men was like balm to my soul.


id: 28038
author: Optic, Oliver
title: Watch and Wait; or, The Young Fugitives
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flesch: 86
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summary:
  As a story of exciting adventure, the writer hopes it will satisfy all his young readers; that they will love the gentle Lily, respect the manly independence of Dan, and smile at the oddities of Cyd; and that the book will confirm and increase their love of liberty and their hatred of tyranny. You are called Cyd for short, as I am Dan.


id: 11137
author: Steward, Austin
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flesch: 67
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title:
  Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West

summary:
  The horrors of slave life, which he had so long endured, arose in all their hideous deformity in his mind, hence the conflict of feeling which I had observed,--and hence the change in his whole appearance, when he had resolved to endure a momentary pain, and escape a life-long scene of unrequited toil and degradation. Poor man!


id: 32325
author: Twain, Mark
title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
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sentence: 5793
flesch: 92
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summary:
  Said he swum along behind me that night, and heard me yell every time, but dasn't answer, because he didn't want nobody to pick _him_ up and take him into slavery again. But at last, just as I was sailing by, _flash_ comes the light in Mary Jane's window!


id: 11859
author: Child, Lydia Maria
title: Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life
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flesch: 73
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summary:
  About eleven o'clock at night, some of the family informed Friend Hopper that there was a man continually walking back and forth in front of the house. He cursed those who interfered with his property; and taking up the Bible, said he was willing to swear upon that book that he would not take fifteen hundred dollars for Ben. Friend Hopper charged him with injustice in wishing to deprive the man of his legal right to freedom.


id: 31406
author: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)
title: Cudjo's Cave
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sentence: 7851
flesch: 87
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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.


id: 55012
author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
title: Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
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sentence: 12372
flesch: 82
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summary:
  What shall we do for him? Said Harry. And we do hereby also require the sheriff of said County of Lenoir to make diligent search and pursuit after the above-mentioned slaves....


