item: #1 of 27
          id: 10431
      author: Hughes, Louis
       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
        date: None
       words: 45854
      flesch: 85
     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.
    keywords: afternoon; age; alfred; appearance; army; aunt; babies; best; better; boat; body; boss; boy; boys; bread; brooks; brother; business; cabin; camp; canada; captain; capture; care; carriage; case; charge; children; christmas; city; clothes; coming; common; continued; cook; cooking; corn; cotton; country; course; cruel; cut; dandridge; day; days; death; delia; different; dining; dinner; dollars; drove; duties; early; effort; evening; excited; excitement; face; family; farm; farmers; farrington; father; fear; feet; fellow; fence; field; fine; fire; flowers; folks; following; food; freedom; friends; general; george; glad; god; good; great; ground; half; hall; hands; happy; hard; heart; heavy; helena; help; home; horses; hotel; house; hundreds; hung; idea; jack; jail; kind; kitty; lady; land; landing; large; law; letters; life; little; long; look; louis; madam; mail; making; man; manner; market; master; matilda; mcgee; meal; meat; memphis; men; miles; mississippi; money; months; morning; mother; mrs; near; neighborhood; new; news; night; number; nurse; o'clock; old; old master; order; overseer; panola; pass; people; place; plantation; planters; poor; principal; property; purpose; quarters; question; railroad; ready; rebel; regular; return; river; road; room; run; runaway; sad; salt; saw; season; second; servants; service; short; sick; sister; slavery; slaves; small; soldiers; sore; stand; steamer; stop; summer; sunday; talk; task; things; thought; time; tom; town; treatment; trees; trip; true; turn; uncle; union; virginia; visit; wagon; want; war; water; way; weeks; whipping; white; wife; william; winter; wives; women; woods; word; work; worm; yankees; yard; year; young
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        item: #2 of 27
          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: aunt; bed; black; boat; boy; chapter; child; chloe; clare; clothes; cruel; day; dear; door; eliza; eva; eyes; face; father; free; george; girl; god; good; great; haley; hand; harry; head; help; home; horses; house; illustration; kind; lady; little; loker; long; love; man; mas'r; master; men; miss; missis; money; mother; mrs; night; old; ophelia; people; poor; room; round; sad; sam; shelby; slaves; sure; things; thought; time; tom; topsy; uncle; uncle tom; way; wicked; wife
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        item: #3 of 27
          id: 11490
      author: Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell
       title: American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
        date: None
       words: 198952
      flesch: 62
     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.
    keywords: a.s; abolition; absence; absent; abundance; abundant; accomplished; account; acklen; acres; action; active; activities; acts; actual; addition; adequate; adjustments; administration; advance; advantage; advertisement; advertiser; affairs; african; african slave; agricultural; agriculturist; alabama; alexander; allen; allowance; amendment; american; annals; annual; antipathy; apparatus; appreciable; april; archives; area; argument; arms; asiento; assault; assembly; association; athens; atlanta; atlantic; attempts; attendance; attention; augusta; authorities; authority; available; average; bacon; bad; bales; baltimore; bank; baptist; barbados; basis; bay; bearing; beginning; behalf; bellum; belt; benefit; best; bill; birth; blacks; blood; boat; bodied; body; boiling; bond; bondage; book; boston; boys; breaking; breeding; bringing; british; broad; broken; brother; brought; building; bulk; buren; burning; bushels; business; butler; buying; cabins; cain; cane; capacity; capital; 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heyward; high; higher; highest; hire; hiring; historical; history; hodgson; hoe; hoeing; hogsheads; home; homesteads; honest; hope; horses; hospital; hours; house; household; human; husband; ibid; iii; illness; immigrants; important; importation; improved; improvement; incidental; inclined; income; increase; independence; indian; indies; indigo; individual; industrial; industry; influence; inhabitants; injury; instance; institution; instructions; insurance; insurrection; intelligent; intent; interest; interior; intervals; introduction; investment; irish; iron; isaac; island; item; j.a; j.h; jamaica; james; jan; january; jefferson; jersey; john; joseph; journal; journey; judge; july; june; jury; justice; keeping; kentucky; killing; kind; kitchen; knowledge; known; labor; laborers; lamar; land; lapse; large; lashes; later; laurens; law; laws; lay; leave; leaving; left; legal; legislation; legislature; leisure; length; lesser; letter; level; liable; liberty; library; life; like; likely; limited; lint; little; liverpool; lives; local; london; long; longer; lord; loss; lost; louisiana; love; lowlands; machinery; magazine; magistrates; main; maintenance; majority; makers; making; man; management; manager; manigault; manner; manual; manufacturing; manumission; march; maritime; market; marriage; married; maryland; massachusetts; master; maximum; mch; means; measure; meat; mechanics; medical; meeting; members; men; mention; merchants; mere; methodist; methods; middle; migration; miles; mill; milledgeville; miller; mind; minor; miscellaneous; mississippi; missouri; mob; moderate; molasses; money; months; moore; moral; morning; mother; movement; moving; mrs; mss; mulatto; mulattoes; murder; nashville; natchez; nathaniel; native; natural; nature; near; nearby; necessary; necessity; need; neglect; negro men; negro slaves; negroes; neighborhood; neighboring; neighbors; new; new england; new jersey; new negroes; new orleans; new york; newspaper; night; nineteenth; non; norfolk; north; northern; 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prevalent; previous; prices; prime; prince; principal; prior; private; privilege; problem; proceedings; proceeds; process; procure; produce; production; profit; profitable; progress; prohibition; project; prompt; property; proportion; proportionate; proprietors; prospect; prosperous; proved; providing; province; provision; public; publications; punishment; purchase; purpose; qualities; quality; quarters; question; quiet; race; racial; railroad; raising; randolph; range; rape; rapid; rate; reach; ready; real; reason; reasonable; recent; records; recourse; recruits; regard; region; register; regular; relations; religion; religious; removal; remove; report; requirements; residence; resources; respect; response; responsible; rest; result; return; review; revolt; revolution; rewards; rhode; richard; richmond; rights; rise; risks; river; robert; room; routine; royal; ruffin; ruin; rule; rum; rumors; run; runaway slaves; runaways; running; rural; russell; régime; s.c; said; sake; salt; samuel; sanction; satisfaction; saturday; savage; savannah; save; saw; saying; scale; schedule; school; score; sea; seaboard; seaboard slave; search; seasons; second; security; seed; seizure; self; selling; senate; sense; sentences; sentiment; separate; september; serfdom; series; servants; service; servitude; set; settlement; settlers; seventeenth; severe; severity; share; ships; short; sick; similar; single; sir; slave code; slave labor; slave laws; slave men; slave population; slave prices; slave property; slave states; slave trade; slaveholders; slaveholding; slavery; slaves; slow; small; smaller; smith; social; society; soil; sojourn; souls; sound; source; south; south carolina; southern; southward; spain; spanish; special; specified; speculation; spirit; spite; spread; spring; squad; staff; stalks; standard; standing; staple; states; statistics; statutes; stay; steady; sterling; stock; strain; strange; streets; strength; stress; strike; striking; strong; subject; substantial; success; sufficient; sugar; summer; sunday; supervision; supplies; supply; support; surplus; survey; suspicion; swamp; system; systematic; talents; task; telfair; tendency; tennessee; terms; testimony; texas; theft; things; thirds; thirties; thomas; thorough; thought; thousands; tide; time; title; tobacco; tom; tone; tons; total; touch; tour; town; traders; trading; traffic; training; traits; transportation; traveler; travels; treatment; trend; tribal; trouble; true; trust; truth; turn; turner; type; typical; union; united; units; university; upland; upper; urban; usual; value; varied; variety; vegetables; vessels; victims; views; vigorous; village; violence; virginia; visit; volume; vote; vouchers; voyage; w.h; wages; wagons; want; war; wars; washington; waters; way; weather; week; weekly; weight; west; western; weston; westward; wheat; whipping; white; white men; whitney; wide; wife; william; winter; wish; women; words; work; workers; working; workmen; world; worse; worthy; writer; xvi; yards; years; years old; 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        item: #4 of 27
          id: 12422
      author: Kemble, Fanny
       title: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839
        date: None
       words: 113664
      flesch: 55
     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.
    keywords: ---to; abode; abraham; absence; absolute; accomplished; account; afraid; afternoon; agreeable; air; aleck; altamaha; america; animal; annie; answer; appearance; apt; arms; arrival; aspect; atlantic; atmosphere; attempt; attention; babies; baby; bad; banks; bare; beach; bearing; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; best; better; birds; birth; black; blood; blossoms; blue; boat; bodies; body; book; boy; bran; bright; broken; brother; brown; brunswick; burning; bush; business; bye; c----; canal; care; carolina; case; cattle; certain; character; charge; charleston; charming; chief; children; christian; church; circumstances; civilisation; civilised; class; clean; cleanliness; climate; close; clothes; clothing; coast; cold; colour; coloured; comfort; coming; command; common; comparison; complaints; complexion; conceive; condition; confinement; consequence; considerable; consideration; constant; conversation; cook; cooper; cotton; countenance; country; course; creatures; crop; cruel; cruelty; cry; cultivation; curious; cut; cutting; daily; danger; darien; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; dearest; death; decent; deep; degradation; degraded; degree; delicious; delight; departure; dependents; deplorable; description; desire; details; different; difficult; dinner; direction; dirty; disgust; dismal; distance; distant; doctor; dollars; door; doubt; dreadful; dress; drive; dry; dusky; duty; dykes; e----; early; earth; effect; effort; element; emancipation; encounter; end; energy; england; english; enormous; escape; estate; european; evening; event; evergreen; evil; excellent; exercise; existence; experience; expression; exquisite; extreme; eyes; face; fact; fall; familiar; family; father; favour; fear; features; feeling; feet; fellow; female; fields; filthy; fine; fire; fish; fit; flannel; flogging; floor; flowers; foliage; folks; food; foot; forest; form; frank; free; freedom; french; frequent; fresh; friend; future; gang; garden; general; gentleman; georgia; girl; glad; god; good; government; grass; great; greater; green; grotesque; growth; habits; half; hampton; hand; happy; hard; having; head; health; heart; heaven; heavy; help; hideous; high; hitherto; home; hope; horrible; horrid; horror; hospital; hour; house; huge; human; humanity; husband; huts; idea; idle; ignorance; ignorant; ill; immediate; immense; improvement; incapable; increase; indignation; individual; inevitable; infinite; infirmary; influence; inhabitants; injustice; instances; instruction; intelligent; intercourse; interest; interesting; intolerable; irish; island; israel; jack; jones; judge; k----; keeping; kind; kitchen; knowledge; known; labour; labourers; ladies; lady; large; lash; late; laws; lay; leave; left; legs; leisure; length; lesson; lie; life; like; likely; limbs; line; little; live; living; london; long; longer; look; looking; lost; lovely; ludicrous; lying; magnificent; major; majority; man; manner; married; massa; masses; master; means; meat; members; men; mental; mere; middle; midst; miles; mill; mind; miserable; misery; missis; mode; molly; moment; money; moral; morning; moss; mother; mouth; mrs; mud; mulatto; mutton; naked; national; natural; nature; near; necessary; necessity; negress; negroes; neighbour; neighbourhood; neighbouring; new; night; noble; northern; number; nurse; o----; oaks; object; observation; occupation; old; old mr; open; opinion; opposite; orange; order; overseer; owners; painful; particular; parts; pass; past; pathetic; paths; pay; peculiar; people; perfect; personal; persons; petitions; philadelphia; physical; picturesque; piece; pine; piteous; pity; place; plantation; planters; pleased; pleasure; point; poor; poor little; poor old; poor people; poor slaves; poor woman; population; position; possible; power; prayer; precious; present; pretty; principal; process; produce; progress; promise; property; proportion; prospect; psyche; punishment; purpose; qualities; quantity; question; race; rate; rattlesnakes; read; reading; real; reflection; regard; region; relation; religious; remains; renty; reply; request; residence; respect; result; return; rheumatism; rice; ride; riding; river; road; room; rose; rough; round; row; rowing; rule; run; sad; said; sand; savage; saying; scene; sea; season; second; self; sense; servants; service; set; settlement; severe; shape; sheep; shore; sick; sickness; simon; simple; single; sitting; size; sky; slaveholders; slavery; slaves; small; social; soil; sole; solemn; son; sorry; sort; soul; southern; southerners; special; species; speech; spirit; spite; spring; standing; statement; states; stay; steps; story; straight; strange; stream; strength; strong; subject; suffering; sufficient; sugar; summer; sun; sunday; supply; sure; swamp; sweet; sympathy; system; table; taking; task; teeth; tell; terrible; terror; testimony; thickets; things; think; thought; threshing; tide; tidy; time; toil; town; trees; tremendous; true; truth; unable; union; united; universal; unpaid; unusual; usual; utter; valuable; value; variety; vast; view; visit; voice; wages; wagon; waiting; walk; want; war; warm; water; way; weather; week; white; white man; wife; wild; winter; wish; witness; women; wonder; wonderful; wood; wooden; words; work; working; world; worse; worth; wretched; years; yesterday; young
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        item: #5 of 27
          id: 14897
      author: Sea, Sophie Fox
       title: "That Old-Time Child, Roberta" Her Home-Life on the Farm
        date: None
       words: 19468
      flesch: 90
     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.
    keywords: 'em; aunt; avenue; babies; baby; beautiful; bed; believe; best; betsy; better; black; blood; boo; born'd; boy; boys; care; charlie; cheeks; child; children; colonel; country; cum; cut; darling; dat; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; dilsy; dis; dolls; don; door; dress; dun; erbout; eyes; face; family; father; federal; fie; fields; fingers; fire; fo'ks; fur; general; girl; git; glad; god; golden; good; great; gun; gwiner; hands; head; heart; hees; help; hold; home; honey; horses; house; jes; judy; july; kentucky; kind; lady; lak; lap; leave; life; like; lil; little; live; long; look; looking; loom; love; mad; mamma; man; marsden; mcgarvy; men; missus; mity; morning; mother; mrs; nature; negroes; nice; night; nuffin; old; old squire; outside; papa; par; place; polly; poor; porch; read; real; rest; road; roberta; room; sad; sarah; saw; sed; seed; sick; sitting; soldiers; sorry; squire; story; sure; tears; ter; thar; things; think; thought; time; town; trees; trying; turn; uncle; wagon; want; war; way; white; wid; wife; woman; world; wud; wuz; young
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        item: #6 of 27
          id: 16741
      author: Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson)
       title: Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is
        date: None
       words: 103071
      flesch: 80
     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.
    keywords: 18mo; abel; abolition; abolitionists; account; accustomed; advantage; affairs; affection; afternoon; age; agin; alice; american; anna; answer; anxious; appearance; arms; arter; arthur; aunt; author; baby; bacchus; bad; barbour; bear; beautiful; beauty; bed; best; better; bible; binding; black; blessed; blessing; blood; blue; body; book; bosom; boston; boy; breakfast; breast; bright; brother; brown; burden; business; cabin; calls; canaan; captain; care; carriage; case; cat; cents; certain; change; chapman; chapter; character; cheek; chest; children; christian; church; city; clasps; clear; close; clothes; co.; cold; colored; comfort; comfortable; coming; command; common; company; complete; comprehensive; condition; conduct; consequence; consideration; constant; continued; control; cotton; countenance; country; cousin; creator; creatures; cross; curse; cut; d.d; danger; dark; dat; daughter; day; days; deacon; dead; deal; dear; death; deep; degree; description; determined; different; difficulty; dinner; direction; dis; disposition; distinguished; doctor; dogs; dollars; domestic; door; doubt; drawing; dreadful; dress; duties; duty; early; earth; earthly; easy; edition; effect; ellen; england; english; engravings; equal; esther; evening; excuse; exeter; expression; extra; eyes; face; fact; fair; faithful; family; farmer; father; favorite; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; female; fine; fire; fit; flowers; following; fool; foot; forgot; form; forward; free; freedom; french; friends; funeral; future; gay; general; gentleman; george; getting; gilt; girls; giving; glad; glory; god; gone; good; grand; grave; great; greatest; green; grief; ground; gwine; hair; half; hall; ham; hand; handsome; happiness; happy; hard; hardly; head; health; heart; heaven; help; henry; high; history; holding; holy; home; honest; hope; horses; hour; house; hubbard; human; husband; idea; illustrated; illustrations; imitation; indian; information; interest; interesting; janet; jesus; john; johnson; jones; joy; judge; jupiter; justice; kent; kind; kindness; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; large; late; laugh; laws; leave; left; letters; liberty; library; lie; life; like; lippincott; lips; little; live; long; look; looking; lord; lost; love; lucy; lydia; ma'am; maid; making; mammy; man; manner; mark; married; master; mean; meeting; memory; men; mighty; mind; miss; mistress; moment; money; month; moore; morning; mother; mrs; music; nancy; natural; nature; near; neat; necessary; necessity; need; negroes; new; nice; niggers; night; noble; north; northern; notes; nothin; notice; number; numerous; object; occasion; octavo; old; ole; open; opinions; order; original; ornaments; owner; pages; pale; paper; parting; party; pass; passing; past; pastor; paul; peggy; people; perfect; person; phillis; piece; place; plain; plantation; plates; pleasant; pleasure; poetical; poets; point; polly; poor; portion; possible; power; prayer; presence; present; pretty; price; promise; property; propriety; publishers; question; quiet; race; reader; reading; ready; reason; red; religion; religious; respect; rest; result; return; rev; rich; river; robert; room; sacred; sad; sarah; saying; scene; scott; scriptures; seat; seed; sense; servants; set; severe; short; shut; sick; simon; sir; sister; slave; slavery; sleep; slightest; small; smile; society; solemn; son; sorrow; sorry; soul; sound; south; southern; spirit; spot; spring; stand; states; stay; steel; step; stories; stowe; strange; strength; strong; style; subject; summer; sun; super; sure; susan; sweet; table; talents; talk; taste; tell; thar; thee; thing; thinking; thought; thy; time; tired; tom; town; tree; trouble; true; trust; truth; turkey; twas; type; uncle; united; useful; usual; valuable; velvet; virginia; voice; volume; walter; want; washington; way; wear; weeping; welcome; western; weston; white; wid; wife; william; willing; window; winter; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; worse; wrong; years; young
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        item: #7 of 27
          id: 17146
      author: Pyrnelle, Louise Clarke
       title: Diddie, Dumps & Tot; or, Plantation child-life
        date: None
       words: 45058
      flesch: 83
     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.
    keywords: 'bout; 'em; allers; angel; ann; arms; atter; aunt; b'lieve; baby; bad; baskets; bed; ben; bes; better; big; billy; birds; bit; black; bless; bob; book; bout'n; boy; boys; bredren; brer; by'mby; cabin; cakes; candy; care; carrie; caze; chapter; chil'en; children; chile; chris; christmas; clothes; come; continued; cotton; course; creek; cut; daddy; dan'l; dance; dar; darkies; dat; dat de; daughters; day; days; de jay; de little; de lord; de s'ord; de time; dead; deb'l; dem; den; den de; des; dey; deze; diddie; dilsey; dinner; dis; ditch; doll; dumps; ebenin; eber; edy; ef'n; efn; ergin; erlone; erway; evening; eyed; eyes; face; famines; father; feet; fire; folks; foot; fox; fum; fun; fur de; fur ter; fus; gal; gemmun; gin; girls; git; gittin; god; goin'; good; great; ground; gun; gun ter; gwine; gwine ter; hab; hands; happy; head; herse'f; hisse'f; hit; home; honey; hotel; house; hyear; i'se; illustration; injuns; jake; jane; jay; jes; jes er; jim; joe; july; kin; kind; lady; large; lef; life; like; line; lions; lipto; little; little folks; little girls; long; look; low; lumber; major; mammy; man; married; marse; marster; men; middle; mighty; min; miss; mistress; mo'n; monahs; mornin; moshuns; mother; mrs; mun; mus; myse'f; nancy; negroes; nettie; new; nex; nice; nigger; nothin'; nuber; nuffin; nursery; old; ole; open; outn; papa; pick; pile; place; plantation; play; playing; plum; pomp; poor; pray; pretty; pun; quarters; rabbit; ready; reign; riar; right; ring; road; robin; roll; room; roun; run; sar; sayin; school; seed; set; sez; sezee; sho; sich; sick; sing; singing; slave; sleep; smith; snake; soon; sorry; sot; stay; stone; story; sunday; sure; sweet; table; tail; talkin; tar; tell; ter; ter de; ter git; ter hyear; ter yer; things; thought; thu; tied; time; tol; tot; tree; try; tuck; uncle; uncle bob; usen; uv de; uv yer; w'at; waldron; walk; wan't; want; wat; water; way; wen; whar; white; wid; wile; woman; woodpecker; wush; wuz; wuz de; wuz er; years; yer; yer'll; yit; young
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        item: #8 of 27
          id: 18687
      author: Warner, Susan
       title: Daisy
        date: None
       words: 123470
      flesch: 90
     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.
    keywords: accustomed; afraid; afternoon; amusement; answer; arms; attention; aunt; avenue; bad; bank; beautiful; beauty; bed; bentley; best; better; bible; big; bit; black; blue; body; book; breakfast; breath; broke; burst; business; busy; cadets; camp; cap; captain; cardigan; care; case; catherine; certain; chance; chapter; character; child; childish; children; christian; christmas; church; circle; clair; clear; cloak; close; coat; cold; colour; coloured; comfort; comfortable; coming; companion; conversation; cool; corner; cost; country; course; cousin; curious; daisy; dance; dancing; dark; darry; dat; day; days; deal; dear; deep; delight; dell; dere; dey; different; difficulty; dinner; distance; doctor; dollars; door; doubt; dress; dresses; dull; duty; earth; easy; edwards; effect; elegance; end; enjoyment; evening; excitement; expression; eyes; face; fact; family; fancy; far; fashion; father; faustina; feeling; feet; figure; fine; fire; flowers; folks; free; freedom; french; fresh; friends; gary; gay; general; genevieve; gentle; gentleman; getting; girls; giving; glad; glass; god; going; gold; gone; good; governess; grant; grave; great; green; grey; grown; guard; guardian; hair; half; hand; handsome; happy; hard; hat; head; heart; heaven; heavy; help; high; hills; history; hold; home; hope; hops; hotel; hours; house; jesus; kind; kitchen; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; lansing; large; late; laughing; leave; left; lesson; letters; library; life; like; line; lips; little; little daisy; live; long; longer; look; lord; lost; love; ma'am; macy; madame; magnolia; mamma; man; manner; margaret; maria; mass; mathematics; matter; mean; meetin; melbourne; memory; midst; miles; military; mind; minute; miss; miss cardigan; miss daisy; miss pinshon; missis; mlle; mme; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; multiplication; music; natural; nature; near; need; new; nice; nonsense; north; northern; oaks; omnibus; open; order; overseer; page; papa; parade; parlour; party; past; path; people; person; pete; picture; pine; pinshon; place; plain; play; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; plenty; point; pony; poor; possible; power; prayer; present; president; preston; pretty; proper; property; puzzled; quarters; question; quick; quiet; randolph; read; reading; reason; reckon; remembered; ricard; rich; riding; right; river; road; room; rose; rough; round; rule; safe; sandford; satisfied; saw; school; second; sense; servants; set; shadow; shut; sides; silence; silent; silk; sir; sister; sky; sleep; small; smile; soft; soldier; sorrow; sorry; sort; south; southern; speak; speaking; spect; spirit; spring; stables; stairs; stand; standing; state; steps; stop; strange; strength; strong; study; style; subject; summer; sun; sunday; sunlight; sunshine; sweet; table; taking; talk; talked; tea; theresa; thick; things; thinking; thorold; thought; time; tired; tone; touch; train; trees; trouble; true; truth; turn; uncle; usual; view; voice; wages; walk; want; warm; washington; watch; water; way; weary; west; white; wild; willing; window; winter; wish; woman; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; wrong; yankees; years; york; young
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        item: #9 of 27
          id: 19107
      author: Read, Opie Percival
       title: An Arkansas Planter
        date: None
       words: 69309
      flesch: 91
     summary: Old man Parker, who kept the records, nudged his neighbor and said: Inquietude is the word. There was old man Haskill.
    keywords: affairs; afraid; american; answer; appearance; arm; arms; attention; away; bad; bath; batts; bayou; bed; best; better; big; black; blood; book; bottle; boy; brennon; broken; business; care; catholic; chair; change; chapter; children; church; clear; clerk; close; cold; coming; community; cool; corner; cotton; cough; county; course; court; cranceford; cry; cut; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; debt; deep; demand; difference; dog; door; drop; early; easy; end; englishman; evening; expected; eyes; face; fact; faith; fall; family; far; father; fear; feet; fellow; fence; fields; fire; floor; fool; foot; free; friend; gate; gathered; gentleman; giant; gid; gideon; girl; glad; god; good; great; ground; gun; guns; half; hall; hand; hard; hat; head; heart; heavy; high; hold; holes; home; hope; house; husband; influence; jim; jimmie; john; joke; judge; known; labor; lamp; large; laugh; law; leave; left; library; life; like; liquor; little; live; log; long; longer; look; looking; lost; loud; louise; love; lying; ma'am; major; man; margaret; marriage; married; matter; mayo; mean; men; mighty; mind; minute; moment; money; morning; morrow; mother; mouth; mrs; nature; near; need; negro; negroes; neighborhood; new; newspaper; north; office; old; old gid; old man; open; opinion; pardon; parker; pennington; people; perdue; piece; pity; place; point; poor; porch; position; possible; present; pretty; priest; question; quiet; rain; read; reading; reason; red; religion; respect; ride; right; river; road; roof; room; said; sanders; saw; scoundrel; seat; sense; set; sharp; shot; shouted; silence; silent; sir; sitting; sleep; slow; small; smile; sorry; sort; soul; speak; spoke; square; stand; standing; state; step; strong; sun; sure; table; talk; taylor; tell; thing; thought; time; tom; town; tree; trouble; true; truth; turning; uncle; view; voice; walk; walking; wall; want; wash; water; weight; whisky; white; wife; willing; window; wisdom; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; yard; years; young
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        item: #10 of 27
          id: 20438
      author: Stuart, Ruth McEnery
       title: Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
        date: None
       words: 39439
      flesch: 85
     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.
    keywords: 'bout; account; afeerd; ag'in; apollo; arms; bed; befo; best; better; bible; bit; black; bless; blue; bow; brer; bride; brother; buggy; ca'line; case; caze; cep'n; cert'n'y; certain; change; chillen; christmas; chu'ch; church; claybank; co'se; coat; colonel; colored; congregation; course; cow; cross; crowd; dat; day; days; deacon; dead; dem; den; des; dese; dey; dey'd; deze; dinner; dis; doctor; dolittle; dollar; door; doubt; early; earth; easter; easy; elder; enoch; entire; eve'y; expression; eyed; eyes; ezra; f'om; face; fact; family; fan; father; feet; fellow; fine; fire; folks; following; foot; frances; fresh; fur; gate; gif; girl; git; gits; glance; glasses; glory; goin'; good; gord; grave; great; gwine; half; hand; hard; hat; head; heah; heap; heart; help; high; home; honey; hope; hour; house; humphrey; husband; illustration; irving; jest; jinny; jordan; joy; keer; kin; kitchen; kitty; knowed; ladies; lady; laughter; lawson; left; lemme; less'n; life; like; lily; little; live; long; look; lookin; lord; lost; love; low; ma'am; man; married; marry; marshall; matter; mean; medicine; mighty; mind; minute; miss; mo'nin; moment; month; moriah; mother; mourning; mrs; musgrove; myrtle; near; need; new; nex; nickel; nothin'; notice; numa; number; nuver; occasion; old; old man; ole; open; orleans; out'n; pain; pair; paper; people; person; pete; peters; pew; pierre; pill; pink; pitcher; place; plantation; pleasure; pocket; pompey; poor; prayer; preach; present; proud; pulpit; purty; question; quick; rest; reub; ricollec; right; road; room; rose; round; rowton; run; saddle; salvation; sech; second; sence; set; settin; sho; shoulder; silver; simpkinsville; sir; sis; sister; slimm; small; smile; somewhat; sophia; sophy; sort; soul; spell; spring; step; sto'e; summer; sunday; sympathy; table; talk; tamar; teck; tell; ter; ter de; thet; thing; thought; time; town; train; trimble; trouble; truth; turn; twouldn't; voice; walk; want; warm; wash; watch; water; way; wear; wheels; white; wid; widder; wife; window; witness; woman; wonder; word; work; yaller; yas; years; yer; yit; young
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        item: #11 of 27
          id: 21357
      author: Fenn, George Manville
       title: Nic Revel: A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land
        date: None
       words: 74358
      flesch: 88
     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.
    keywords: 'em; able; afraid; air; arm; attack; away; bad; bank; barking; basket; bear; beat; beginning; best; better; big; bit; black; blow; boat; body; boy; boys; breath; burge; captain; chance; chapter; close; coming; companion; corn; country; couple; course; cut; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; deal; dear; deck; dee; deep; distance; doctor; dogs; door; dozen; drop; easy; edge; efforts; end; enemy; escape; excitement; eyes; face; fact; faint; fall; far; fast; father; feeling; feet; fellow; fierce; find; fish; foot; fresh; friends; gang; glad; gliding; good; great; growled; guns; half; hand; hard; head; heart; heavy; help; high; hoe; hoeing; hold; home; hook; hope; horrible; hot; hour; house; huge; humpy; hungry; hurt; idea; impossible; irons; jack; knife; lad; lads; laugh; lawrence; lay; lead; leave; left; lie; life; like; line; lips; little; long; look; looking; lot; lower; making; man; master nic; matter; means; men; mind; minute; moment; morning; morrow; mouth; movement; musket; nay; near; nic; nic revel; oar; oars; officer; old; on'y; open; order; overseer; party; pete; place; plantation; poachers; point; pole; pool; poor; position; pretty; prisoners; pull; quick; quiet; rain; reach; ready; reptiles; rest; revel; right; river; rose; rough; round; row; run; running; rush; rustling; sah; sailor; salmon; samson; saunders; savage; scoundrels; sea; sensation; settler; sharp; shed; ship; short; sick; silence; silent; sir; skipper; slaves; sleep; soft; solly; splash; stand; staring; start; step; stone; stop; strange; stream; strength; strong; struggle; sun; sure; surface; talking; teeth; thing; thinking; thought; thrust; tide; time; trees; trouble; try; turn; turning; vish; voice; waiting; walk; want; waren't; watch; water; whip; white; wild; woods; word; work; yards; yonder; young; zay; zee; zir
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        item: #12 of 27
          id: 22282
      author: Harris, Joel Chandler
       title: Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
        date: None
       words: 7234
      flesch: 91
     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?
    keywords: 'bout; atter; b'ar; big; bofe; boy; brer; brer b'ar; brer fox; brer rabbit; brer wolf; buzzard; come; coon; creeturs; dar; dat; dat dey; day; den; der; des; dey; dey wuz; dis; dust; eyes; fer; fer ter; fox; fum; git; gol; good; gwine; home; hoss; house; illustration; kaze; kin; little; long; look; man; mighty; miss; nothin'; ol'; ol' brer; rabbit; rain; remus; right; road; room; roun; run; set; sezee; sho; suh; sump'n; ter; ter de; time; try; tuck; uncle; water; whar; wid; wolf; wuz
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        item: #13 of 27
          id: 22673
      author: Devereux, Margaret
       title: Plantation Sketches
        date: None
       words: 31476
      flesch: 74
     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.
    keywords: air; anxious; army; autumn; autumnal; baby; banks; barn; beautiful; bed; bell; beneath; bent; better; big; billy; black; blood; blue; boat; bob; body; book; boys; branches; bread; broken; brother; brown; busy; butler; cabin; care; caroline; carriage; cart; chance; chany; children; christmas; church; clean; close; cold; comfortable; content; corn; cotton; country; course; crop; dat; dave; day; days; dear; death; deep; delight; departure; devereux; dey; dinner; distance; distant; dog; door; drive; dry; early; ears; eggs; emma; end; evil; eyes; face; fall; family; far; fear; feeder; feeling; feet; fence; fields; fine; fire; flat; following; foot; forest; frank; fresh; friends; garden; general; god; gone; good; grandfather; grass; gray; great; green; ground; gwine; half; hand; happy; harry; head; heart; help; high; hog; home; honey; horses; hot; house; idea; interest; jane; jerry; jim; joe; jones; kate; known; land; lane; large; lazy; leaves; left; length; life; like; little; lonely; long; look; lord; low; lynn; mammy; man; manner; mars; master; mate; men; mill; mind; miss; moment; morning; moss; mother; mrs; nature; near; negroes; nest; new; night; nip; nursery; old; old man; open; order; outside; party; pass; path; pause; peaceful; people; period; phil; piazza; picking; picture; pig; place; plantation; pocket; pollock; polly; poor; pretty; proud; quiet; ready; reapers; red; rest; return; river; robin; room; runiroi; running; sad; safe; sale; save; search; second; sedley; set; sharp; shop; short; sibyl; silent; sleep; small; snow; soft; sound; south; squire; standing; state; steps; stillness; stood; stream; summer; sun; sunday; sunshine; swamp; sweet; table; terror; thicket; things; thought; time; tired; town; trees; turn; uncle; view; voice; war; watch; water; way; welcome; wheat; white; wide; wife; wills; window; winter; women; words; work; world; wounded; yard; yellow; young
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        item: #14 of 27
          id: 2306
      author: Harris, Joel Chandler
       title: Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings
        date: None
       words: 56173
      flesch: 89
     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.
    keywords: 'bout; agin; air; allers; ann; atter; atter brer; ax brer; axe; b'er; baby; bad; bag; bango; bear; bed; bee; begin; behime; better; big; bimeby; bimeby brer; bimeby dey; bin; bird; bizness; blacksmif; bleedzd; bleedzd ter; bless; bofe; boss; boun; boy; boys; brer b'ar; brer bull; brer buzzard; brer coon; brer fox; brer frog; brer john; brer possum; brer rabbit; brer rastus; brer remus; brer tarrypin; brer tukkey; brer wolf; brier; broke; bucket; ceppin; cheer; child; chilluns; chu'ch; clean; close; co'se; col; come; comin; cooter; cornder; cow; crawfishes; creeturs; crope; cross; crowd; cut; daddy; dan; dar; dar dey; dar wuz; dat brer; dat day; dat de; dat man; dat ole; dat sun; dat time; dat w'at; dat w'en; day; days; de big; de fence; de fus; de groun; de honey; de house; de las; de little; de long; de man; de mornin; de news; de nex; de night; de ole; de rabbit; de road; de settlement; de sun; de tarrypin; de time; de tree; de udder; de water; de way; de yard; dead; deer; dem; den brer; den dey; der; dere; des; dese; deze; dialect; dinner; dis; dis en; dish; dog; dogs; doin'; drap; dus; duz; een; ef brer; en dat; en dey; en ef; en git; en mars; en wid; end; enny; eve'y; eyes; ez de; face; fambly; feel; fer; fer ter; fier; fine; fix; fixin; fling; fokes; folks; fool; fox dat; fox wuz; fresh; frog; fum; fur; fus; gals; game; gate; gimme; gin; git; git de; gits; gittin; gone; good; gotter; grab; grashus; great; gun; gun ter; gwine; gwineter; ha'r; han; hand; hang; hard; head; heyo; hide; high; hisse'f; hit; hole; holler; holt; home; honey; hop; hoss; house; howdy; huntin; inter; inter de; jack; jeems; jug; jump; kase; kaze brer; keer; kep; ker; ketch; ketch de; kill; kin; kinder; know; know'd; ladies; laff; las; lay; leas'ways; lef; lemme; like; little; little boy; livin; lone; lonesome; long; longer; look; lookin; loose; low; m. brer; mad; man; man rabbit; man w'at; mars; mawnin; meadows; men; middle; mighty; mile; minnit; miss; miss fox; mo'n; mong; monstus; mos; mouf; mout; mule; myse'f; naberhood; needer; negro; negroes; news; nice; nigger; nigger dat; nigh; nudder; nuff; nuthin'; old; old man; ole brer; ole miss; oman; open; out'n; outer; pass; patch; pick; piece; place; plantation; pull; rabbit sorter; rabbit w'at; rabbit wuz; rabbits; race; racket; red; right; riley; riz; road; rock; roll; root; roun; run; runnin; sally; sayin; seed; seed brer; sence; settin; sez brer; sezee; shake; shet; sho; sick; simmon; sindy; sing; sis; sludge; smoke; song; sorter; sot; sparrer; speck; spit; stan; stay; stories; story; study; stump; sump'n; sun; tail; tale; talk; talkin; tell; tell brer; tellin; ter brer; ter dat; ter de; ter dis; ter git; ter hisse'f; ter ketch; tergedder; terrapin; thoo; thoo de; time brer; times; tobe; tole; tone; town; tree; tu'n; tuck; tuck'n; turn; twel; twix; uncle; uncle remus; up'n; w'at; w'at brer; w'at de; w'at wuz; w'en brer; w'en dey; w'ich; w'iles; w'ite; waitin; walk; war; water; way; wedder; whar; whar brer; whar de; wid; wid brer; wid dat; wid de; witch; woods; wrong; wuk; wunner; wuz brer; wuz de; wuz gwine; wuz gwineter; wuz ter; yard; year; year brer; yer; yit; young
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        item: #15 of 27
          id: 26429
      author: Harris, Joel Chandler
       title: Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
        date: None
       words: 123952
      flesch: 91
     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.
    keywords: 'bout; 'bout de; 'nuff; affiky; african; ag'in; allers; answer; attention; atter brer; atter dat; atter dey; aunt; away; ax brer; b'er; b'leeve; bad; bag; bahck; bear; bed; bee; beef; befo; beg; beg brer; behime; bein; benjermun; berry; bes; better; big; biggity; bimeby brer; bin; bin dar; bird; bite; bleedz; bleedz ter; bless; blow; bofe; boun; bow; boy; break; breff; brer b'ar; brer bull; brer buzzud; brer coon; brer fox; brer gibley; brer jack; brer mink; brer possum; brer rabbit; brer remus; brer tarrypin; brer tukky; brer wolf; brother fox; brother rabbit; brother wolf; bu'n; buckra; bud; bumbye; bushes; buzzard; cabin; ceppin; chair; chance; chap; chaw; cheer; chevreuil; child; children; chilluns; chivreil; close; co'n; co'se; co'se brer; coat; cole; come; come ter; comin; comp'ny; compair; compã¨re; cord; cow; crack; creeturs; creeturs dey; crope; cross; cry; curious; cut; daddy; dan; dance; dar; dar dey; dark; dat ar; dat brer; dat dat; dat de; dat mr; dat ole; dat time; dat w'at; dat way; day; days; days brer; de a'r; de bank; de big; de box; de branch; de bucket; de butter; de case; de cornder; de creek; de fence; de fus; de gal; de good; de gyardin; de honey; de hoss; de house; de little; de lord; de lowmos; de man; de middle; de mo; de moon; de nat'al; de news; de nex; de ole; de patter; de place; de plough; de reason; de river; de road; de roun; de seat; de settlement; de spring; de t'er; de time; de tree; de water; de way; de wimmen; de woods; de yuther; dead; deer; dem; den brer; den de; den dey; den mr; der; des; dey ax; dey bin; dey come; dey gwine; dey kin; dey look; dey sot; dey tuck'n; dey'd; dey'll; deyse'f; deze; diddybum; dis; dis de; dis time; dish; dog; doin'; door; drap; dream; druv; dry; dunner; dunno; e ahx; e bin; e come; e gwan; e head; e holler; e kin; e mek; e mout; e mus; e tail; e yent; een; ef brer; effect; en bimeby; en dat; en dey; en dis; en ef; en git; en han; en kyar; en las; en mos; en ole; en stan; en w'en; en w'iles; 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        item: #16 of 27
          id: 27482
      author: Jester, Annie Lash
       title: Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
        date: None
       words: 30849
      flesch: 62
     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.
    keywords: abraham; acres; adam; addition; agreement; anne; area; arms; arrival; arthur; assembly; available; bacon; bay; bed; beds; berkeley; black; bland; brass; brick; bridger; building; calthrope; canvas; captain; cargo; case; cattle; century; chairs; chamber; charge; charles; children; christmas; christopher; church; city; close; cloth; clothes; clothing; coarse; coat; colonel; colonists; colony; coming; company; complete; corn; corporation; cost; council; county; court; creek; custom; daniel; daughter; day; death; deceased; demand; denbigh; diamond; digges; domestic; dozen; dress; drink; drinking; dutch; dwelling; earliest; early; edward; elaborate; elizabeth; end; england; english; englishmen; estate; families; family; father; feet; fields; following; food; fort; francis; friends; funeral; furnished; general; george; glass; goats; gold; goods; governor; great; ground; half; hand; heavy; heirs; henrico; henry; holland; home; horses; house; household; husband; illustration; indian; inventories; inventory; iron; island; isle; items; jamestown; jewels; joane; john; joseph; kecoughtan; kitchen; large; later; law; life; linen; little; livestock; living; london; long; lower; major; making; man; marriage; married; mary; materials; mathews; means; member; men; merchant; middle; miles; mill; mint; months; mrs; nansemond; nathaniel; neck; negroes; new; newport; news; norfolk; note; number; old; open; operation; order; original; page; pairs; parish; passage; peirsey; people; period; perry; persons; pewter; photo; place; plantation; planters; plentiful; point; poquoson; portion; possession; pots; pounds; present; prior; profit; public; racing; records; return; richard; ring; river; robert; room; samuel; sarah; second; servants; service; settlement; settlers; seventeenth; seventeenth century; sheets; ships; shoes; silk; silver; similar; sir; small; smith; son; store; suit; summer; supplies; supply; surry; susan; table; terms; thomas; thoroughgood; time; title; tobacco; today; tombstones; trade; travel; upper; utensils; virginia; virginia company; voyage; warwick; waters; weather; west; white; widow; wife; wight; william; women; wood; work; world; worn; yeardley; years; york; young
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        item: #17 of 27
          id: 27949
      author: Warner, Susan
       title: Daisy
        date: None
       words: 122880
      flesch: 90
     summary: We's happy to see Miss Daisy at her own home. Miss Daisy is the mistress.
    keywords: accustomed; afraid; afternoon; amusement; answer; arms; attention; aunt; avenue; bad; bank; beautiful; beauty; bed; bentley; best; better; bible; big; bit; black; blue; body; book; breakfast; breath; broke; burst; business; busy; cadets; camp; cap; captain; cardigan; care; case; catherine; certain; chance; chapter; character; child; childish; children; christian; christmas; church; circle; clair; clear; cloak; close; coat; cold; colour; coloured; come; comfort; comfortable; coming; common; companion; conversation; cool; corner; cost; country; course; cousin; curious; daisy; dance; dancing; dark; darry; dat; day; days; deal; dear; deep; delight; dell; dere; dey; different; difficulty; dinner; distance; doctor; dollars; door; doubt; dress; dresses; dull; duty; earth; easy; edwards; effect; end; enjoyment; evening; excitement; expression; eyes; face; fact; family; fancy; far; fashion; father; faustina; feeling; feet; figure; fine; fire; flowers; folks; free; freedom; french; fresh; friends; gary; gay; general; gentle; gentleman; getting; girls; giving; glad; glass; god; going; gold; gone; good; governess; grant; grave; great; green; grey; grown; guard; guardian; hair; half; hand; handsome; happy; hard; hat; head; heart; heaven; heavy; help; high; hills; history; hold; home; hope; hops; hotel; hours; house; jem; jesus; kind; kitchen; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; lansing; large; late; laughing; leave; left; lesson; letters; library; life; like; line; lips; little; little daisy; live; long; longer; look; lord; lost; love; ma'am; macy; madame; magnolia; mamma; man; manner; margaret; maria; mass; mathematics; matter; mean; meetin; meetings; melbourne; memory; midst; miles; military; mind; minute; miss; miss cardigan; miss daisy; missis; mlle; mme; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; multiplication; music; natural; nature; near; need; neviã¨ve; new; nice; nonsense; north; northern; number; oaks; omnibus; open; order; overseer; page; papa; parade; parlour; party; past; path; people; person; pete; picture; pine; pinshon; place; plain; play; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; plenty; point; pony; poor; possible; power; prayer; present; president; preston; pretty; proper; property; puzzled; quarters; question; quick; quiet; randolph; read; reading; reason; reckon; remembered; ricard; rich; riding; right; river; road; room; rose; rough; round; rule; safe; sandford; satisfied; saw; school; second; self; sense; servants; set; shadow; shut; sides; silent; silk; sir; sister; sky; sleep; small; smile; soft; soldier; sorrow; sorry; sort; south; southern; speak; speaking; spect; spirit; spring; stables; stairs; stand; standing; state; steps; stop; strange; strength; strong; study; style; subject; summer; sunday; sunlight; sunshine; sweet; table; taking; talk; talked; tea; theresa; thick; things; thinking; thorold; thought; time; tired; tone; touch; train; trees; trouble; true; truth; turn; uncle; usual; view; voice; wages; walk; want; warm; washington; watch; water; way; weak; weary; west; white; wild; willing; window; winter; wish; woman; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; writing; wrong; yankees; years; yesterday; york; young
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        item: #18 of 27
          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: arms; bed; bird; black; boy; boys; child; children; chloe; day; dear; door; drawer; eliza; eva; eyes; face; father; flowers; george; god; good; great; hard; harry; head; heart; help; home; house; ice; illustration; kind; land; like; little; long; look; man; mas'r; master; moment; mother; mrs; neck; negroes; night; old; people; poor; pretty; rest; rich; river; round; slaves; tears; time; tom; topsy; trader; uncle; way; wicked; wife; woman
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        item: #19 of 27
          id: 34016
      author: Page, Thomas Nelson
       title: Unc' Edinburg: A Plantation Echo
        date: None
       words: 11182
      flesch: 86
     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.
    keywords: 'bout; 'em; agin; ain; al'ays; big; braxton; charlotte; christmas; cold; come; cotch; couldn; cross; darker; dat; dat wuz; day; dee; dee ain; dem; den; didn; dis; don; dyah; edinburg; ev'y; ev'ybody; evenin; eyes; face; fiddle; folks; fox; fust; gal; george; george wuz; git; good; gord; gret; gwine; hand; head; heah; help; hit; home; house; jack; jes; know; kyarn; leetle; life; like; little; long; look; lookin; man; marse; marse george; marster; meck; mighty; miss; mistis; mos; nancy; nigger; nurr; nuttin; nuver; ole; presney; right; river; roun; set; sho; sort; stop; suh; supper; sutney; sweet; teck; thing; time; tun; twuz; warn; water; way; whar; white; wid; wuz; wuz de; young
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        item: #20 of 27
          id: 35295
      author: Reid, Mayne
       title: The Maroon
        date: None
       words: 179897
      flesch: 79
     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_?
    keywords: 'bout; 'em; absence; accomplished; account; accustomed; action; adam; admiration; advanced; affair; african; air; alarm; ample; andres; angry; animal; answer; anxious; apartment; appearance; apprehension; approach; appropriate; arms; arrival; assumed; astonishment; attempt; attendant; attention; attitude; avenue; bag; ball; bamboo; band; basket; bay; beautiful; beauty; bed; behaviour; belief; bent; berry; best; better; big; bird; bishness; bit; black; blesh; blood; blue; boar; body; bold; book; boots; bosom; bottle; boy; branches; breakfast; breast; bright; broken; brother; brown; buckra; bushes; business; cabbage; cabin; cacadores; calculated; calling; canoe; captain; captive; capture; care; cargo; case; castle; catherine; ceiba; certain; chagrin; chair; chakra; chamber; chance; changed; chapter; character; cheeks; chief; child; circumstances; clear; cliff; cloak; close; coat; cockney; cocoa; cold; colour; coloured; coming; command; common; companion; company; complete; complexion; condition; conduct; confidence; conjecture; conspicuous; content; continued; contrary; conversation; convinced; corner; coromantee; corpse; costume; cotton; couch; countenance; country; course; court; cousin; craft; creature; creole; crime; crimson; crossed; cruel; cry; cubina; curiosity; cussus; custos; cynthia; cynthy; danger; dark; darkey; darkness; dat; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; dearest; death; deck; deep; degree; dem; den; departure; descent; design; desire; despair; determination; determined; dey; dialogue; die; different; difficulty; dinner; direction; dis; distance; distant; distinguished; doan; dogs; domestics; door; double; doubt; downward; dozen; drawing; dreaded; dress; drink; drop; duppy; duty; dwelling; early; earnest; ears; earth; easy; eclipse; edge; effect; effort; emotions; encounter; enemy; engaged; englishman; entrance; equal; erect; errand; escape; estate; events; evident; execution; expected; explanation; expression; exquisite; extended; extreme; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; fancy; far; fashion; fate; father; fear; fearful; features; feeling; feet; fellow; felt; fields; fierce; figure; fine; fingers; fire; floor; followers; following; foolah; foot; forest; form; fortune; forward; free; fresh; friend; future; gal; gallery; game; garden; gate; gaze; gentleman; gesture; ghost; gib; gigantic; girl; glade; glance; glass; god; gold; gone; good; goot; got; grand; great; greater; green; ground; guest; guide; guinea; gun; hab; half; hall; halt; hammock; hand; hanging; happiness; happy; harm; hash; haste; hat; haw; head; hearing; heart; heavy; help; herbert; herbert vaughan; hideous; high; hills; hog; hold; hole; hollow; home; honner; hope; horn; horrid; horses; hour; house; hue; huge; human; hunter; hunting; hurried; hut; hya; i'se; idea; important; indian; indifference; individual; influence; inside; instant; instinct; intelligence; intended; intention; interest; interrogatory; interrupted; intervals; interview; iron; ish; island; jacob; jake; jamaica; jealous; jessuron; jew; jewess; journey; joy; judith; jumbe; justice; kate; kate vaughan; keeper; keeping; kind; kiosk; knees; know; knowing; knowledge; knowsh; lady; lagoon; lamp; landing; large; late; laugh; law; lay; lead; leave; left; legs; length; let; lieutenant; life; like; likely; lilly; limbs; lips; little; live; living; loftus; loftus vaughan; long; longer; look; looking; loud; love; lovers; lub; maid; main; making; man; mandingoes; manner; mansion; manuel; maroon; marry; massr; master; mean; meeting; melancholy; merchant; mere; messenger; middle; miles; mind; minutes; mishter; missa; mistress; mode; moment; money; monish; montagu; montego; moon; moonlight; morning; mother; motive; mount; mount welcome; mountain; movement; mr smythje; mr vaughan; mulatta; musht; muss; muttered; mutual; myal; mysterious; naked; natural; nature; near; nearer; nebba; necessary; necessity; neck; need; negro; negroes; neighbour; nephew; new; news; nigga; night; noble; nose; notice; number; nymph; ob de; obeah; obi; object; observation; observed; occasion; occupied; offer; old; onward; open; opening; opportunity; opposite; order; ordinary; outside; overseer; owner; painful; pair; palm; papa; particular; parting; party; passage; passenger; passion; past; path; pause; pay; penn; people; period; person; phrase; piece; place; plantation; planter; platform; pleasure; point; pointed; pony; poor; position; possession; possible; post; pounds; power; presence; present; prince; prisoners; proceeding; produce; profound; promise; pronounced; property; proprietor; prospect; proud; purple; purpose; puzzled; quaco; quarter; quasheba; quashie; question; quick; race; rare; ravener; ravine; reach; ready; real; reality; rear; reason; reflection; regard; relationship; relative; reply; resembled; result; return; ribbon; rich; ridge; riding; road; robbers; rock; roof; room; rose; rude; rum; runaway; sad; safe; satisfied; savanna; saw; scarce; scene; scheme; sea; search; seat; second; secret; self; separated; set; setting; shadow; shape; sharp; shay; ship; shoodith; shooting; short; shoulders; showing; showler; sick; sides; signal; significant; silence; silent; similar; single; singular; sister; situation; skin; sky; slave; sleep; sleeper; slight; slightest; slope; small; smile; smythje; soft; soliloquy; sombre; sorry; soul; sound; spaniards; spanish; speaker; speaking; spectacle; speech; spell; spirit; splendid; sportsman; spot; sprang; spread; stairway; standing; starting; stay; steerage; step; story; strange; stream; strength; strong; stronger; stump; style; subject; success; sudden; sufficient; sugar; summer; summit; sun; sure; surface; surprise; suspicion; sweet; sweetheart; table; talk; teeth; tell; terrible; terror; thanks; thick; thing; thinking; thish; thoms; thought; throat; time; tone; tongue; town; track; traveller; tree; trial; trouble; trousers; true; trusty; truth; turkey; turning; twilight; umbrella; uncle; unfortunate; unpleasant; upward; utterance; uttering; valley; vaughan; verandah; victim; view; visible; visit; vochan; voice; volume; voyage; waiting; walls; want; wash; water; way; welcome; wench; west; wha; whip; white; whugh; wicked; wife; wild; window; wish; witness; woman; wonder; woods; word; work; worship; worthy; yards; yaw; yer; yesh; yola; young; young creole; young englishman; young fellow; young girl; young man
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        item: #21 of 27
          id: 40255
      author: Watkins, C. Malcolm
       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
        date: None
       words: 90316
      flesch: 70
     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 ·
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cost; cotton; council; county; course; courtesy; courthouse; courts; cover; creamware; credit; creek; cross; cups; cut; cylindrical; d^o; daniel; dark; darrell; darter; date; dating; david; day; days; death; debris; debts; december; decoration; delftware; description; design; detail; diameter; dick; dictionary; different; difficulties; dimensions; distance; dixon; doctor; door; double; doubtless; doz; dozen; drab; earlier; early; earthenware; east; edward; elaborate; elegant; enclosure; end; england; english; entry; equipment; evidence; example; excavations; exp^s; expenses; extended; exterior; fairfax; family; february; feet; fenton; feoffees; fig; figure; final; find; fine; fireplace; firing; fitzhugh; flat; floor; following; footnote; fork; form; foundation; fourth; foward; fragmentary; fragments; frame; francis; fredericksburg; french; furnishings; furniture; gallon; garden; gateway; gazette; general; gentlemen; george; george mercer; glass; glasses; glazed; gloves; good; gray; great; 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moncure; money; monroe; months; mortar; mrs; mug; museum; nails; narrow; nathaniel; national; natural; near; neck; negroes; new; norfolk; north; northwest; notes; november; number; octagonal; october; office; official; ohio; old; oliver; order; ordinaries; ordinary; original; outside; oven; overseer; overwharton; oxford; p^d; p^r; page; pair; palladio; papers; parallel; parish; parts; passage; past; pavement; pay; payment; peace; penny; period; person; personal; petition; pewter; piece; pipe; pit; plain; plantation; planter; plate; plays; plow; point; policy; polychrome; pope; porcelain; porch; port; portion; portrait; position; posset; possible; potomac; pottery; pounds; practice; present; press; previous; principal; probable; property; public; punch; purchase; purdie; quantity; quarters; question; rackham; ranter; records; rectangular; red; redware; references; related; remains; reports; return; richard; richmond; right; rim; river; road; robert; rogers; roof; room; rosewell; roy; royal; rum; run; running; russell; said; sale; salmon; salt; sampson; sandstone; sarah; savage; scissors; sconce; scott; seal; second; section; secure; self; september; series; servants; services; session; set; shaped; sheep; sheets; sheffield; shell; sherds; shillings; ship; shooes; shore; shows; sick; significant; silk; silver; similar; simple; single; site; situation; size; slabs; slaves; slip; sloop; small; smaller; smithsonian; snuff; society; soil; sons; source; south; southeast; southwest; specific; spirits; spoons; spotsylvania; spring; square; stafford; stafford county; staffordshire; stamp; standing; state; steps; stock; stones; stoneware; strap; street; structure; sufficient; sugar; suit; sundrys; surface; survey; surveyor; sydenham; syder; system; table; tailor; taliaferro; tea; teapot; thick; thomas; thomson; thread; tidewater; time; tin; title; tobacco; tool; total; town; trade; treatise; trees; trim; type; typical; undertaker; undisturbed; university; usnm; usual; variety; veranda; vhm; viii; village; virginia; viz; vol; w^m; wales; walker; wall; ware; warehouses; washington; waugh; wavy; wealth; weaver; wedgwood; west; western; westerwald; white; whiteware; wide; widow; width; wife; william; williamsburg; windmill; wine; wood; wooden; work; world; worsted; wrought; y^d; y^e; y^{ds; yards; years; yellow; york; yorktown; young
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        item: #22 of 27
          id: 40767
      author: De Saussure, N. B. (Nancy Bostick)
       title: Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
        date: None
       words: 16964
      flesch: 75
     summary: OLD PLANTATION DAYS My brothers and sisters, old men and women now, can never speak of that sacred hour without tears.
    keywords: account; age; agnes; arms; army; beaufort; beautiful; book; bostick; brother; captain; care; carolina; charleston; cheraw; children; church; colcock; college; colonel; columbia; condition; corn; country; course; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deer; devoted; early; family; father; food; friend; general; georgia; good; grandfather; great; happy; heart; home; hope; horses; hour; house; husband; lady; large; letter; life; little; live; long; love; man; marriage; married; master; men; miles; minister; miss; months; morning; mother; music; nannie; negroes; neighborhood; new; night; north; northern; o'clock; officers; old; ones; open; parents; people; pet; philadelphia; place; plantation; poor; prayer; present; return; river; robert; room; saunders; saussure; savannah; scene; school; sherman; sick; sister; slaves; soldiers; son; south; southern; state; thought; time; town; troops; uncle; visit; war; way; wedding; weeks; white; willie; women; work; years; york; young
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        item: #23 of 27
          id: 44626
      author: Burwell, Letitia M.
       title: Plantation Reminiscences
        date: None
       words: 35710
      flesch: 69
     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.
    keywords: accustomed; agreeable; ancestors; appearance; army; aunt; beautiful; bed; best; better; biscuit; black; books; boy; brave; bread; breakfast; bright; burney; cabin; cakes; care; carolina; carriage; certain; chapter; character; charles; charming; children; christian; church; college; comfort; company; conversation; corn; country; dancing; dark; dat; day; days; dead; dear; death; delightful; dick; different; dinner; distinguished; door; dream; dressed; driver; early; eloquence; england; english; entertaining; establishment; estate; evening; eyes; face; faithful; family; fanny; fashioned; father; favorite; fine; fire; folks; frances; free; french; friends; furniture; gay; general; gentleman; girls; god; gold; good; grandmother; great; greenfield; grove; guests; hair; half; handsome; happy; hard; head; health; hearing; heart; help; high; highest; hill; home; horses; hospitality; hour; house; human; husband; incidents; indians; journey; kind; kindness; kitchen; kitty; ladies; lady; land; large; late; law; learned; leave; lee; life; little; living; loaf; long; maid; making; man; manner; master; means; men; midnight; miles; mind; minister; miss; mistress; modern; moment; money; months; morning; mother; mountains; mrs; music; mutton; nation; near; necessary; negroes; new; night; noble; nuver; oaklands; occasion; old; old gentleman; old home; old lady; old virginia; open; order; owners; page; paris; parlor; parties; party; past; people; picture; place; plantation; pleasant; pleasure; polished; poor; porch; powhatan; prayer; present; progress; purpose; queen; race; rare; reach; reminiscences; return; richmond; road; robert; room; savage; scene; scenery; servants; set; short; showing; sick; sir; sister; sitting; slaves; small; smithfield; soap; society; soul; south; southern; states; story; strange; style; summer; sweet; table; thar; things; thought; time; true; turning; uncle; velvet; virginia; visit; visitors; voice; want; war; washington; water; way; wedding; weeks; white; wife; women; words; work; world; worn; yard; years; york; young
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        item: #24 of 27
          id: 45631
      author: Northup, Solomon
       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
        date: None
       words: 84294
      flesch: 74
     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.
    keywords: abram; account; acquainted; agent; air; alexandria; answer; appearance; arms; armsby; arrival; attempt; aunt; avoyelles; bacon; bass; bayou; bayou boeuf; bear; big; black; blood; board; bob; body; boeuf; bondage; boy; break; brig; brother; brown; building; burch; business; cabin; cane; captain; carriage; case; certain; chapin; chapter; character; charge; children; christmas; circumstances; citizen; city; clem; close; colored; coming; common; companions; company; condition; continued; conversation; cook; corn; cotton; county; course; court; covered; creek; cruel; custom; cutting; dance; dark; day; days; dead; death; departure; deponent; description; difficulty; distance; distant; dogs; dollars; door; doubt; dress; drove; early; earth; edward; edwin; effect; eldret; eliza; emily; end; endeavored; epps; escape; evidence; expression; eyes; face; fact; faithful; falls; family; fast; father; fear; feet; fellow; field; fire; flesh; flogging; floor; following; food; foot; ford; fort; forward; free; freedom; freeman; friends; general; gentleman; girl; god; good; governor; grave; great; ground; hair; half; hamilton; hampton; hand; handle; happiness; happy; hard; harry; hat; having; head; heart; heavy; henry; high; hill; history; hoeing; hold; home; hope; hotel; hounds; hour; house; human; husband; idea; indian; information; informed; interest; january; jim; john; judge; justice; kind; kindness; kitchen; knife; knowledge; known; labor; large; lash; lashes; law; lawson; leaving; left; length; letter; liberty; life; like; little; live; living; long; look; lord; louisiana; making; man; manner; marksville; marshall; mary; master; master epps; meal; means; meeting; memorial; men; mercy; midnight; miles; mill; mind; mintus; mistress; moment; money; month; morning; mother; mule; narrative; nature; near; necessary; neck; new; nigger; night; northern; northup; november; number; o'clock; object; office; old; open; opening; opportunity; order; orleans; overseer; pain; papers; parish; parker; pass; patsey; pen; perry; person; peter; phebe; piazza; picking; piece; pine; place; plantation; planter; platt; pleasant; pleasure; point; poor; position; possession; possible; post; power; presence; present; previous; property; punishment; purchase; purpose; quarters; rachel; radburn; randall; ray; reach; ready; red; region; reply; residence; rest; return; river; road; robert; room; said; sale; sam; sandy; saratoga; satisfied; scene; season; secret; services; set; shaw; shekels; sheriff; short; silent; situation; slave; slavery; sleep; small; soil; solomon; sore; sorrow; sound; south; spirit; standing; state; stick; strength; subject; sudden; suffering; sugar; summer; sun; sunday; swamp; sweet; table; thing; thought; tibeats; time; town; trees; true; truth; turning; unable; uncle; unusual; usual; utter; vicinity; village; violin; visit; voice; waddill; washington; water; way; weeks; whip; whipping; white; wide; wife; wild; wiley; william; woman; woods; word; work; wrong; yard; years; york; young
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        item: #25 of 27
          id: 4992
      author: Pyrnelle, Louise Clarke
       title: Diddie, Dumps, and Tot; Or, Plantation Child-Life
        date: None
       words: 44905
      flesch: 82
     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.
    keywords: 'bout; 'em; allers; angel; ann; arms; atter; aunt; b'lieve; baby; bad; baskets; bed; ben; bes; better; big; billy; birds; bit; black; bless; bob; book; bout'n; boy; boys; bredren; brer; by'mby; cabin; cakes; candy; care; carrie; caze; chapter; chil'en; children; chile; chris; christmas; clothes; come; continued; cotton; course; creek; cut; daddy; dan'l; dance; dar; darkies; dat; dat de; daughters; day; days; de book; de jay; de little; de lord; de s'ord; de time; dead; deb'l; dem; den; den de; des; dey; deze; diddie; dilsey; dinner; dis; ditch; doll; dumps; ebenin; eber; edy; ef'n; efn; end; ergin; erlone; erway; evening; eyed; eyes; face; famines; father; feet; fire; folks; fox; frog; fum; fun; fur de; fur ter; fus; gal; gemmun; gin; girls; git; gittin; god; goin'; good; great; ground; gun; gun ter; gwine; gwine ter; hab; hands; happy; head; herse'f; hisse'f; hit; home; honey; hotel; house; hyear; i'se; injuns; jake; jane; jay; jes; jes er; jim; joe; july; kin; kind; lady; large; lef; life; like; line; lions; lipto; little; little folks; little girls; long; look; low; lumber; major; mammy; man; married; marse; marster; men; middle; mighty; min; miss; mistress; mo'n; monahs; mornin; moshuns; mother; mrs; mun; mus; myse'f; nancy; neck; negroes; nettie; new; nex; nice; nigger; nothin'; nuber; nuffin; nursery; old; ole; open; out'n; outn; papa; pick; pile; place; plantation; play; plum; pomp; poor; pray; pretty; quarters; rabbit; ready; reign; riar; right; ring; road; robin; roll; room; roun; run; sar; sayin; school; seed; set; sez; sezee; sho; sich; sick; sing; singing; sitting; slave; sleep; smith; snake; soon; sorry; sot; stay; stone; story; sunday; sure; sweet; table; tail; talkin; tar; tell; ter; ter de; ter git; ter hyear; ter yer; things; thought; thu; tied; time; tol; tot; tree; try; tuck; uncle; uncle bob; usen; uv de; uv yer; w'at; waldron; walk; wan't; want; wat; water; way; wen; whar; white; wid; wile; woman; woodpecker; wush; wuz; wuz de; wuz er; years; yer; yer'll; yit; young
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        item: #26 of 27
          id: 52782
      author: Harris, Joel Chandler
       title: Aaron in the Wildwoods
        date: None
       words: 53870
      flesch: 88
     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.
    keywords: aaron; abdallah; abercrombie; account; addison; air; ali; andy; arms; attention; bad; bateau; bed; ben; best; better; big; bit; black; blue; boat; body; bold; boy; brindle; buggy; business; catch; child; chunky; close; coat; colonel; coming; companions; country; course; crotchet; crutches; cry; cut; dar; dark; dat; dawn; day; den; des; dey; distance; dogs; door; ears; end; experience; eyes; face; fact; far; fast; father; feeling; feet; fence; fer; field; fire; fit; folks; foot; fox; fullalove; gadsby; gates; george; george gossett; git; glad; goblin; good; gossett; grandson; gray; great; ground; grunter; gwine; haired; half; hand; hard; head; help; high; hill; hog; home; horse; hoss; hounds; hour; hudspeth; hunt; hunting; hurt; idea; illustration; jim; key; know; lad; landing; large; late; left; legs; like; little; little crotchet; little master; little mr; long; look; lot; low; man; master; men; mighty; miles; mind; moment; morning; mother; mouth; mrs; mysteries; mystery; near; need; negroes; new; nigger; night; oak; old; open; pain; pasture; path; patrollers; paused; people; pig; pity; place; plantation; pluto; point; pony; quarters; queer; rambler; randall; ready; reason; red; reply; rest; ride; riding; riley; river; road; room; runaway; running; saddle; safe; sal; saying; scent; short; signal; simmons; simple; sitting; sleep; small; smoke; son; sound; spring; stable; stallion; stand; standing; stood; story; strange; stream; suh; sun; sure; swamp; talk; teacher; tell; thing; thought; time; timoleon; tired; tone; trail; tree; trouble; turin; uncle; voice; ward; warning; water; way; white; wid; wildcat; window; wish; woman; woods; word; wuz; young
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        item: #27 of 27
          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: account; afraid; ben; best; better; blacks; blood; book; cabin; chapter; charles; children; christ; circumstances; close; colored; condition; cotton; country; dansley; day; days; determined; dollars; duty; efforts; escape; farm; father; fear; field; food; god; good; great; grocery; hands; hard; heart; help; hines; hire; home; hope; hounds; hour; house; jack; james; james wilson; jesus; kind; labor; large; law; laws; leadbitter; lessons; life; long; man; master; meetings; memphis; men; miles; mind; mistress; month; morning; mother; mrs; neighborhood; new; night; old; opportunity; overseer; place; plantation; poor; position; prayer; punishment; purpose; railroad; rest; return; reward; road; rules; runaway; school; set; short; slave; slavery; south; start; states; superintendent; thompson; thought; time; uncle; uncle ben; way; white; wife; wilson; woods; work; years; young
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