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id: 22282
author: Harris, Joel Chandler
title: Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
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words: 7234
sentence: 351
flesch: 91
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summary:
  He look 'roun', he did, an' he seed Brer Rabbit's tracks what he couldn't take wid 'im. Brer Rabbit had lef' his shoes at home, an' come bar'footed. He say, 'Brer Rabbit, what's all dis fuss I hear in de woods?


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: 34016
author: Page, Thomas Nelson
title: Unc' Edinburg: A Plantation Echo
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words: 11182
sentence: 440
flesch: 86
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summary:
  So ole marster foller her dat next fall, when dee wuz gittin in de corn, an' Marse George he ain' got nobody in de wull left; he all alone in dat gret house, an' I wonder sometimes he ain' die too, 'cause he sutney wuz fond o' old marster. We rid roun' by de back yard to gi' Billy de horses, an' we see dee wuz havin' gret fixin's; an' den we went to de house, jest as some o' de folks run in an' tell 'em we wuz come.


id: 11171
author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
title: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
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: 40767
author: De Saussure, N. B. (Nancy Bostick)
title: Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
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words: 16964
sentence: 731
flesch: 75
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summary:
  OLD PLANTATION DAYS My brothers and sisters, old men and women now, can never speak of that sacred hour without tears.


id: 14897
author: Sea, Sophie Fox
title: "That Old-Time Child, Roberta" Her Home-Life on the Farm
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words: 19468
sentence: 1159
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Your par en your mar wuz en de setten' room, en I heered him say: 'It's unly a queshun of er little time, en they'll all be free. For when old Squire split his foot open with an ax, they lived so far in the country they couldn't get a physician every time it needed attention, and her kind, brave mamma undertook to dress the wound herself every morning.


id: 9941
author: Thompson, Charles
extension: .txt
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words: 22257
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: 22673
author: Devereux, Margaret
title: Plantation Sketches
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words: 31476
sentence: 1177
flesch: 74
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summary:
  I The cold gray light of early dawn had given place to saffron, and the first drowsy challenge from the henroost had been shrilly answered from far and near, when old man Jerry awoke from his nap in the chimney corner, and, finding himself chilled through all his old, rheumatic bones, bent over the dying embers, pushed together the blackened and half-burned chunks, and blew them until they glowed. In a moment the deep stillness of the forest was broken by the pattering of many little feet; from the thickets the hogs came; each hurrying with might and main to be foremost, they rushed, grunting, squealing, crowding to the fence, where, standing with upturned faces and small covetous eyes, they awaited the feast of golden grain which the old man hastened to scatter amongst them.


id: 27482
author: Jester, Annie Lash
title: Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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words: 30849
sentence: 1159
flesch: 62
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summary:
  Virginia County Court Records. Colonel Bridger established in Isle of Wight a large mercantile business, trading Virginia tobacco for commodities needed by the colonists.


id: 44626
author: Burwell, Letitia M.
title: Plantation Reminiscences
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words: 35710
sentence: 1420
flesch: 69
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summary:
  Sometimes two or three carriages might be descried in the evening coming up to the door through the Lombardy poplar avenue--the usual approach to many old houses--whereupon ensued a lively flutter among small servants, who speedily got them into their clean aprons, and ran to open gates, and remove parcels from carriages, and becoming generally excited. Our visiting acquaintance extended from Botetourt county to Richmond, and among them were jolly old Virginia gentlemen and precise old Virginia gentlemen; eccentric old Virginia gentlemen and prosy old Virginia gentlemen; courtly old Virginia gentlemen and plain-mannered old Virginia gentlemen; charming old Virginia gentlemen and uninteresting old Virginia gentlemen.


id: 20438
author: Stuart, Ruth McEnery
title: Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
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words: 39439
sentence: 2057
flesch: 85
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summary:
  An' dem chillen o' his'n, which ain't nuver is had no proper mo'nin' fur dey mammy--no mo' 'n what color Gord give 'em in dey skins--I gwine put 'em in special secon' mo'nin', 'cordin' to de time dey ought ter been wearin' it; an' when we walks up de island o' de chu'ch, dey got ter foller, two by two, keepin' time ter de fun'al march. Dey'd be a heap less fam'ly quar'lin on dis plantation ef de 'omans had cuds ter chaw--dat is ef dey'd be satisfied ter chaw dey own.


id: 10431
author: Hughes, Louis
extension: .txt
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words: 45854
sentence: 2549
flesch: 85
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title:
  Thirty Years a Slave From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter: Autobiography of Louis Hughes

summary:
  Many old slaves were guided in this way when traveling in the night, and some could tell the time of night by the position of the stars. Women slaves were punished in the same manner as the men.


id: 4992
author: Pyrnelle, Louise Clarke
title: Diddie, Dumps, and Tot; Or, Plantation Child-Life
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words: 44905
sentence: 1651
flesch: 82
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summary:
  But den, honey, he ain't no born gemmun, nohow; he's jes only er oberseer wat made 'im er little money, an' bought 'im er few niggers; an', I tells yer, he makes 'em wuck, too; we'se got ter be in de fiel' long fo' day; an' I ober-slep mysef tudder mornin' an he Wuz cussin' an' er gwine on, an' 'lowed he wuz gwine ter whup me, an' so I des up an' runned erway fum 'im, an' now I'se skyeert ter go back; an', let erlone dat, I'se skyeert ter stay; caze, efn he gits Mr. Upson's dogs, dey'll trace me plum hyear; an' wat I is ter do I dunno; I jes prays constunt ter de Lord. termorrer night, an' I'd like fur yer ter come.


id: 17146
author: Pyrnelle, Louise Clarke
title: Diddie, Dumps & Tot; or, Plantation child-life
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words: 45058
sentence: 1701
flesch: 83
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summary:
  But den, honey, he ain't no born gemmun, nohow; he's jes only er oberseer wat made 'im er little money, an' bought 'im er few niggers; an', I tells yer, he makes 'em wuck, too; we'se got ter be in de fiel' long fo' day; an' I oberslep' mysef tudder mornin' an' he wuz cussin' an' er gwine on, an' 'lowed he wuz er gwine ter whup me, an' so I des up an' runned erway fum 'im, an' now I'se skyeert ter go back; an', let erlone dat, I'se skyeert ter stay; caze, efn he gits Mr. Upson's dogs, dey'll trace me plum hyear; an' wat I is ter do I dunno; I jes prays constunt ter de Lord. ' Den de Woodpecker he pass de kempulmence wid 'im, des same ez any udder gemmun; an' atter dey talk er wile, den de Blue Jay he up'n sez, 'I wuz jes er lookin' fur yer,' sezee; 'I gwine ter hab er party ter-morrer night, an' I'd like fur yer ter come.


id: 52782
author: Harris, Joel Chandler
title: Aaron in the Wildwoods
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 53870
sentence: 3123
flesch: 88
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summary:
  But, Colonel, drawled Mr. Simmons, what under the sun ever got the idee in your head that Addison Abercrombie _is_ harboring your nigger? It's as simple as a-b ab, Mr. Gossett replied with energy. In his soul he despised Mr. Gossett, whose negroes were constantly in the woods, and loved and admired Addison Abercrombie, whose negroes never ran away, and who, if every slave on his plantation were a fugitive, would never call on Mr. Simmons to catch them.


id: 2306
author: Harris, Joel Chandler
title: Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings
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mime: text/plain
words: 56173
sentence: 2952
flesch: 89
cache: cache/2306.txt
txt: txt/2306.txt
summary:
  Brer Fox allers got one eye on Brer Rabbit, en w'en he slip off fum de new groun', Brer Fox he sneak atter 'im. He know Brer Rabbit wuz atter some projick er nudder, en he tuck'n crope off, he did, en watch 'im. Brer Fox see Brer Rabbit come to de well en stop, en den he see 'im jump in de bucket, en den, lo en behol's, he see 'im go down outer sight. Nex' day, Brer Fox sont word by Mr. Mink, en skuze hisse'f kaze he wuz too sick fer ter come, en he ax Brer Rabbit fer ter come en take dinner wid him, en Brer Rabbit say he wuz 'gree'ble.


id: 19107
author: Read, Opie Percival
title: An Arkansas Planter
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 69309
sentence: 4523
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Old man Parker, who kept the records, nudged his neighbor and said: Inquietude is the word. There was old man Haskill.


id: 21357
author: Fenn, George Manville
title: Nic Revel: A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land
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words: 74358
sentence: 3733
flesch: 88
cache: cache/21357.txt
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summary:
  You'll have to buy me another one, Master Nic, continued the man, and get the smith to make me a noo steel hook. You did laugh, sir, roared the Captain--that is, I saw you look at Master Nic here and smile.


id: 45631
author: Northup, Solomon
extension: .txt
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words: 84294
sentence: 3924
flesch: 74
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title:
  Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana

summary:
  It was not unusual for slave women as well as slave men to endeavor to escape. From descriptions of such men as Burch and Freeman, and others hereinafter mentioned, they are led to despise and execrate the whole class of slaveholders, indiscriminately.


id: 40255
author: Watkins, C. Malcolm
extension: .txt
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words: 90316
sentence: 4531
flesch: 70
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txt: txt/40255.txt
title:
  The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia An Archeological and Historical Investigation of the Port Town for Stafford County and the Plantation of John Mercer, Including Data Supplied by Frank M. Setzler and Oscar H. Darter

summary:
  Savage made a significant notation on his survey plat: The lots marked 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, & 21 joining to the Creek are in possession of Mr. John Mercer who claims them under Robinson, Berryman, Pope & Parry, & under Ballard & under John Waugh dec^{ed}, all w^{ch} he says have been built on and saved. [Illustration] BULLETIN 253 WASHINGTON, D.C. 1968 The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia An Archeological and Historical Investigation of the Port Town for Stafford County and the Plantation of John Mercer, Including Data Supplied by Frank M. Setzler and Oscar H. Darter C. MALCOLM WATKINS CURATOR OR CULTURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ·


id: 16741
author: Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson)
title: Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is
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words: 103071
sentence: 5582
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: 12422
author: Kemble, Fanny
title: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839
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words: 113664
sentence: 2938
flesch: 55
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summary:
  With regard to the indifference of our former manager upon the subject of the accommodation for the sick, he was an excellent overseer, _videlicet_, the estate returned a full income under his management, and such men have nothing to do with sick slaves--they are tools, to be mended only if they can be made available again,--if not, to be flung by as useless, without further expense of money, time, or trouble. Such men will best avoid and best encounter the perils that may assail them from the abject subject, human element, in the control of which their noble faculties are sadly and unworthily employed.


id: 18687
author: Warner, Susan
title: Daisy
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words: 123470
sentence: 8125
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Miss Daisy � do you like my cat; or would you like maybe to go in and look at my flowers? It is Miss Randolph � said the doctor, after he had drawn up the window shade.


id: 26429
author: Harris, Joel Chandler
title: Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
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words: 123952
sentence: 6676
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Well den, said Aunt Tempy, wiping her fat face with her apron: One time Brer Rabbit un Brer Wolf tuck'n gone off som'ers un kilt a cow, un w'en dey come fer ter 'vide out de kyarkiss, Brer Wolf 'low dat bein's he de biggest he oughter have de mos', un he light in, he did, un do like he gwine ter take it all. Brer Fox year Brer Rabbit holl'in' en he up'n ax w'at de 'casion er sech gwines on right dar in de broad open daylight.


id: 35295
author: Reid, Mayne
title: The Maroon
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words: 179897
sentence: 9926
flesch: 79
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summary:
  Over the left shoulder rested loosely another scarf of blue _burnous_ cloth, concealing the arm over which it hung; while half hidden beneath its draping could be perceived a scimitar in its richly-chased scabbard, with a hilt of carved ivory. You want me put de _death-pell_ on him? Oh! no--no! not that, Chakra, for the love of Heaven!--not that! Den you want de _lub-spell_?


id: 11490
author: Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell
extension: .txt
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words: 198952
sentence: 7684
flesch: 62
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title:
  American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime

summary:
  Occasional documents of this period contain mention of negro slaves at various places in the Spanish peninsula, but the number was clearly small and it must have continued so, particularly as long as the supply was drawn through Moorish channels. Not only did many civil officials, voicing public opinion in their island communities, urge that the supply of negro slaves be greatly increased as a means of preventing industrial collapse, but a delegation of Jeronimite friars and the famous Bartholomeo de las Casas, who had formerly been a Cuban encomendero and was now a Dominican priest, appeared in Spain to press the same or kindred causes.


