item: #1 of 30 id: 10401 author: Drayton, Daniel 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 date: None words: 34376 flesch: 67 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. keywords: attorney; board; business; case; counsel; court; day; district; evidence; good; half; jail; judge; jury; law; man; men; pearl; people; prisoner; property; sayres; slaves; state; time; trial; vessel; washington cache: 10401.txt plain text: 10401.txt item: #2 of 30 id: 11137 author: Steward, Austin 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 date: None words: 82408 flesch: 67 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! keywords: agent; board; business; capt; children; colony; country; day; death; dollars; family; friends; god; good; great; heart; helm; home; house; kind; land; leave; let; lewis; life; like; look; man; master; men; money; new; night; paul; people; place; poor; power; public; return; rochester; saw; settlement; slavery; slaves; state; steward; thought; time; village; way; white; wife; wilberforce; years; york cache: 11137.txt plain text: 11137.txt item: #3 of 30 id: 11171 author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher title: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition date: None words: 17206 flesch: 99 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. keywords: clare; eliza; eva; miss; ophelia; tom; topsy; uncle cache: 11171.txt plain text: 11171.txt item: #4 of 30 id: 11859 author: Child, Lydia Maria title: Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life date: None words: 118978 flesch: 73 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. keywords: business; case; character; children; city; course; day; days; dollars; door; family; father; freedom; friend hopper; friends; fugitive; good; heart; home; house; isaac; kind; law; left; letter; life; magistrate; man; master; mayor; meeting; men; mind; money; mother; new; people; person; philadelphia; place; poor; prison; quaker; slave; slavery; society; state; subject; t. hopper; thee; thou; thought; time; visit; way; wife; william; woman; years; york; young cache: 11859.txt plain text: 11859.txt item: #5 of 30 id: 13989 author: Child, Lydia Maria title: The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act An Appeal To The Legislators Of Massachusetts, Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 9 date: None words: 13465 flesch: 76 summary: If not _through_ law, why then _ Men satisfied themselves by saying it was all done according to _law_. keywords: act; children; constitution; freedom; fugitive; god; law; laws; liberty; man; massachusetts; master; men; people; person; power; slave; states cache: 13989.txt plain text: 13989.txt item: #6 of 30 id: 13990 author: May, Samuel title: The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18 date: None words: 22957 flesch: 72 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. keywords: case; child; city; commissioner; corpus; counsel; county; court; custody; free; fugitive; habeas; house; jail; john; judge; kentucky; law; man; margaret; marshal; men; new; ohio; sheriff; slave; slavery; states; united; united states; woman; writ; years; york cache: 13990.txt plain text: 13990.txt item: #7 of 30 id: 15128 author: Green, J. D. (Jacob D.) 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 date: None words: 20687 flesch: 67 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. keywords: barn; cobb; dan; day; good; house; man; mary; master; morning; night; north; poor; reuben; slavery; south; thought; time; way; wife cache: 15128.txt plain text: 15128.txt item: #8 of 30 id: 15130 author: Pennington, James W. C. 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 date: None words: 28757 flesch: 74 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? keywords: brother; children; day; family; father; free; friend; god; home; house; left; man; master; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; night; road; slavery; slaves; state; time; way; work; years cache: 15130.txt plain text: 15130.txt item: #9 of 30 id: 15132 author: Brown, William Wells title: Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave date: None words: 20936 flesch: 83 summary: We made our first stop at Vicksburg, where we remained one week and sold several slaves. slaves have no father. keywords: boat; city; day; house; jail; louis; man; master; mother; new; night; orleans; place; slavery; slaves; thought; time; walker; work cache: 15132.txt plain text: 15132.txt item: #10 of 30 id: 17820 author: Delaney, Lucy A. (Lucy Ann) title: From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom date: None words: 9208 flesch: 73 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. keywords: bates; berry; child; freedom; girl; judge; mitchell; mother; mrs; slavery; time; years cache: 17820.txt plain text: 17820.txt item: #11 of 30 id: 17851 author: Prince, Mary title: The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave date: None words: 27639 flesch: 74 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. keywords: antigua; case; character; children; day; england; good; home; house; husband; mary; master; mistress; mother; mrs; people; poor; slave; slavery; time; woman; wood; work cache: 17851.txt plain text: 17851.txt item: #12 of 30 id: 28021 author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher title: Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin date: None words: 9300 flesch: 89 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. keywords: bird; eva; george; good; harry; man; mother; poor; tom; trader cache: 28021.txt plain text: 28021.txt item: #13 of 30 id: 28038 author: Optic, Oliver title: Watch and Wait; or, The Young Fugitives date: None words: 49192 flesch: 86 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. keywords: archy; board; boat; cabin; colonel; cyd; dan; dandy; dat; day; deck; dis; fugitives; good; hunters; isabel; lake; lily; man; master; night; party; place; quin; raybone; slave; thing; time; watch; water; way; wha; wind cache: 28038.txt plain text: 28038.txt item: #14 of 30 id: 31406 author: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend) title: Cudjo's Cave date: None words: 116135 flesch: 87 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. keywords: arms; bed; black; boy; bythewood; captain; carl; cave; cudjo; dan; dark; dat; dear; door; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; friends; fur; god; good; hand; head; heart; house; left; life; little; look; lysander; man; master; men; mind; moment; mountain; mrs; negro; night; penn; pepperill; place; pomp; poor; rocks; ropes; salina; silas; soldiers; soul; sprowl; stackridge; thing; thought; time; toby; vas; villars; virginia; voice; way; white; woods; young cache: 31406.txt plain text: 31406.txt item: #15 of 30 id: 31424 author: Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gideon) 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. date: None words: 31163 flesch: 76 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. keywords: byrnes; case; commissioner; counsel; court; davis; door; evidence; fugitive; law; man; marshal; person; rescue; riley; room; said; shadrach; states; time; united cache: 31424.txt plain text: 31424.txt item: #16 of 30 id: 32325 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) date: None words: 116074 flesch: 92 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! keywords: bed; canoe; come; dark; dat; day; dey; door; duke; going; good; hain't; half; hand; head; home; house; huck; jim; kind; king; left; little; long; look; man; men; mighty; mile; mind; minute; miss; money; nigger; people; place; pretty; raft; right; river; run; set; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; tom; town; trouble; warn't; water; way; woods; work cache: 32325.txt plain text: 32325.txt item: #17 of 30 id: 34594 author: McDougall, Marion Gleason title: Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865) date: None words: 71886 flesch: 71 summary: [Footnote 79: Post, §§ 34, 35.] Post_, §§ 78, 79.] keywords: act; acts; amendment; antislavery; appendix; authority; bill; boston; case; colonies; committee; cong; congress; constitution; court; district; escape; footnote; fugitive; general; globe; house; journal; labor; law; laws; liberator; liberty; massachusetts; master; negro; negroes; new; north; people; person; personal; repeal; resolution; return; runaways; senate; servants; service; sess; slave; slave act; slave law; slavery; south; states; time; united; virginia; wilson; york cache: 34594.txt plain text: 34594.txt item: #18 of 30 id: 34915 author: Douglass, Frederick title: Abolition Fanaticism in New York Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore, at an Abolition Meeting in New York, Held May 11, 1847 date: None words: 4654 flesch: 68 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. keywords: american; convention; country; england; man; people; slavery cache: 34915.txt plain text: 34915.txt item: #19 of 30 id: 49129 author: Henson, Josiah title: Father Henson's Story of His Own Life Truth Stranger Than Fiction date: None words: 38490 flesch: 74 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. keywords: amos; canada; chapter; children; day; england; family; father; freedom; friends; god; good; heart; home; house; life; man; master; men; miles; mother; new; night; place; poor; river; saw; slave; thought; time; way; wife; work; years cache: 49129.txt plain text: 49129.txt item: #20 of 30 id: 55012 author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher title: Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp date: None words: 237598 flesch: 82 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.... keywords: 'em; air; an't; anne; aunt; best; care; case; chapter; children; chile; church; clayton; coming; course; dat; day; de lord; dear; death; dere; dey; dis; door; dred; eyes; face; fact; family; fanny; father; fellow; general; god; going; good; gordon; got; great; hand; harry; having; head; heart; help; home; house; john; judge; kind; know; laws; life; look; looking; lord; love; man; master; men; milly; mind; miss; moment; morning; nature; nesbit; new; nina; old; people; place; plantation; poor; power; pretty; read; right; room; rose; round; saw; set; slave; slavery; sort; soul; state; subject; talk; tell; things; think; thought; tiff; time; tom; took; trouble; uncle; voice; want; way; white; wife; wild; woman; words; work; world; years; yer cache: 55012.txt plain text: 55012.txt item: #21 of 30 id: 59500 author: Brown, William Wells title: Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Second Edition date: None words: 31850 flesch: 80 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. keywords: boat; city; day; dollars; free; good; home; house; jail; liberty; louis; man; master; men; mother; negro; new; night; person; place; sec; slave; slavery; states; thought; time; walker; white; woman; work; years cache: 59500.txt plain text: 59500.txt item: #22 of 30 id: 7100 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05 date: None words: 9040 flesch: 93 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. keywords: going; good; jim; man; time; tom; warn't; widow cache: 7100.txt plain text: 7100.txt item: #23 of 30 id: 7101 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 06 to 10 date: None words: 13704 flesch: 94 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. keywords: canoe; good; island; jim; man; pap; place; river; time; warn't; way cache: 7101.txt plain text: 7101.txt item: #24 of 30 id: 7102 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 date: None words: 12289 flesch: 94 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. keywords: come; dat; good; jim; man; right; time; warn't; way cache: 7102.txt plain text: 7102.txt item: #25 of 30 id: 7103 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 16 to 20 date: None words: 19136 flesch: 89 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. keywords: buck; day; duke; good; jim; little; man; men; raft; right; river; tell; time; warn't; way; young cache: 7103.txt plain text: 7103.txt item: #26 of 30 id: 7104 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 21 to 25 date: None words: 13552 flesch: 88 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. keywords: duke; good; hands; head; king; man; men; people; right; time; town; warn't; way cache: 7104.txt plain text: 7104.txt item: #27 of 30 id: 7105 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 26 to 30 date: None words: 14758 flesch: 91 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. keywords: come; duke; good; jane; kind; king; mary; money; think; warn't; way cache: 7105.txt plain text: 7105.txt item: #28 of 30 id: 7106 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 31 to 35 date: None words: 14163 flesch: 92 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. keywords: come; good; jim; kind; nigger; old; right; thing; time; tom; warn't; way cache: 7106.txt plain text: 7106.txt item: #29 of 30 id: 7107 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to the Last date: None words: 18991 flesch: 88 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. keywords: aunt; bed; good; jim; look; nigger; right; sally; things; think; time; tom; warn't; way; went cache: 7107.txt plain text: 7107.txt item: #30 of 30 id: 9941 author: Thompson, Charles 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. date: None words: 22257 flesch: 75 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. keywords: ben; dansley; day; god; home; man; master; night; plantation; slave; thompson; time; uncle; way; wife; wilson; work cache: 9941.txt plain text: 9941.txt