item: #1 of 41 id: 10621 author: Stribling, T. S. (Thomas Sigismund) title: Birthright: A Novel date: None words: 72821 flesch: 83 summary: Peter turned, and caught an alcoholic breath over his shoulder, and the blurred voice of a Southern negro called out above the rumble of the car and the roar of the engine: 'Fo' Gawd, ef dis ain't Peter Siner I's been lookin' at de las' twenty miles, an' not knowin' him wid sich skeniptious clo'es on! Peter stood in the brilliant light, astonished, not at Captain Renfrew's being a Harvard man,--he had known that,--but that this old gentleman was telling the fact to him, Peter Siner, a negro graduate of Harvard. keywords: bend; big; black; cabin; captain; caroline; chair; cissie; dat; day; dildine; door; dust; eyes; face; fuh; gentleman; girl; good; half; hand; head; hill; home; hooker; house; jim; life; man; matter; men; mind; moment; mother; mulatto; negress; negro; negroes; niggertown; night; pack; peter; peter siner; pink; place; queer; race; renfrew; river; room; rose; set; south; street; thought; time; tump; village; voice; want; way; white; whut; window; woman; work cache: 10621.txt plain text: 10621.txt item: #2 of 41 id: 10755 author: Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) title: The Broken Road date: None words: 99166 flesch: 90 summary: Shere Ali half rose in his seat. Moreover, wherever the cliffs seemed likely to afford a means of ascent Shere Ali had directed the water-channels, and since the nights were frosty these points were draped with ice as smooth as glass. keywords: ahmed; chiltistan; colonel; come; day; dewes; dick; door; end; english; eyes; face; good; great; hand; head; highness; house; india; ismail; khan; kohara; letter; life; linforth; look; luffe; man; men; mind; moment; mrs; night; oliver; people; peshawur; phillips; ralston; road; room; shere ali; sir; smile; thought; time; trouble; violet; voice; way; white; words; years cache: 10755.txt plain text: 10755.txt item: #3 of 41 id: 11057 author: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell) title: The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays date: None words: 82455 flesch: 74 summary: Other white men gave their colored sons freedom and money, and sent them to the free States. Miss Clayton and her friends, by reason of their assumed superiority to black people, or perhaps as much by reason of a somewhat morbid shrinking from the curiosity manifested toward married people of strongly contrasting colors, would not marry black men, and except in rare instances white men would not marry them. keywords: black; blood; case; child; children; cicely; clara; clayton; colonel; color; course; court; dat; day; dick; door; eyes; face; fact; father; fer; free; good; grandison; hand; home; house; know; law; laws; life; long; look; man; men; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; myrover; negro; north; people; place; prisoner; public; race; right; room; sheriff; sophy; south; states; tell; ter; time; uncle; want; war; way; wellington; white; wife; woman; wuz; years; young cache: 11057.txt plain text: 11057.txt item: #4 of 41 id: 11214 author: Webb, Frank J. title: The Garies and Their Friends date: None words: 132532 flesch: 76 summary: Mr. Balch saw, from the nervous and embarrassed manner of Mr. Stevens, that the indirect threat of exposing him had had considerable effect; and his downcast looks and agitation rather strengthened in his mind the suspicions that had been excited by the disclosures of Mr. Walters. Mr. Ellis, whose house was quite indefensible (it being situated in a neighbourhood swarming with the class of which the mob was composed), had decided on bringing his family to the house of Mr. Walters, and sharing with him the fortunes of the night, his wife and daughters having declared they would feel as safe there as elsewhere; and, accordingly, about five in the afternoon, Mrs. Ellis came up, accompanied by Kinch and the girls. keywords: appearance; aunt; balch; bird; boy; caddy; charlie; children; clarence; come; day; dear; door; ellis; emily; esther; eyes; face; father; feel; friend; garie; gentleman; george; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; kinch; kind; left; life; little; look; looking; man; manner; matter; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; old; people; place; poor; room; school; stevens; thing; thomas; thought; time; walters; want; way; white; wish; years cache: 11214.txt plain text: 11214.txt item: #5 of 41 id: 11228 author: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell) title: The Marrow of Tradition date: None words: 90717 flesch: 78 summary: White men might lynch a negro on suspicion; they would not kill a man who was proven, by the word of white men, to be entirely innocent. The matter was not only in his own thoughts, but in the air; it was the spontaneous revulsion of white men against the rule of an inferior race. keywords: carteret; child; clara; crime; dat; day; death; delamere; dey; dis; doctor; don; door; ellis; face; family; father; fer; general; gentleman; good; gwine; half; hand; home; house; jane; jerry; josh; know; life; like; little; long; major; man; matter; mcbane; men; miller; mis; moment; money; mrs; negro; negroes; nigger; ochiltree; people; place; polly; price; race; right; room; sandy; suh; tell; thought; time; tom; town; way; white; wife; woman; wuz; years; young cache: 11228.txt plain text: 11228.txt item: #6 of 41 id: 12101 author: Brawley, Benjamin Griffith title: A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia date: None words: 158720 flesch: 64 summary: A great field for the bribery of magistrates was opened up, and opportunity was given for committing to slavery Negro men about whose freedom there should have been no question. By 1830 feeling was acute throughout the country, especially in Ohio and Kentucky, and on the part of Negro men had developed the conviction that the time had come for national organization and protest. keywords: act; africa; american; american negro; anti; black; boston; carolina; case; chapter; charleston; chief; children; church; city; co.; coast; college; colonization; colony; color; company; congress; convention; country; course; court; day; days; early; economic; education; effort; england; english; fact; footnote; fort; free; freedom; general; george; georgia; good; government; governor; great; henry; history; home; house; indians; insurrection; james; january; john; july; labor; later; law; liberia; life; man; matter; means; meeting; members; men; nation; national; negro; negroes; new; new york; night; north; number; old; order; organization; people; period; persons; philadelphia; place; population; power; present; president; problem; public; question; race; republic; rights; robert; school; second; service; situation; slavery; slaves; society; south; southern; special; states; system; territory; thomas; time; town; trade; union; united; united states; university; virginia; war; washington; way; west; white; william; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 12101.txt plain text: 12101.txt item: #7 of 41 id: 14299 author: Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Grey title: Native Races and the War date: None words: 48329 flesch: 65 summary: I have similar testimonies from missionaries (not Englishmen); but I regret to say that these good men hesitate to have their names published,--not from selfish reasons,--but from love of their missionary work and their native converts, to whom they fear they will never be permitted to return if the ascendancy of the present Transvaal Government should continue, and Mr. Kruger should learn that they have published what they have seen in his country. For we have a debt to pay back to South Africa; and if we cannot resume our solemn responsibilities towards her and her millions of native peoples, in a chastened, a wiser and a more determined spirit than that which for some time has prevailed, it would be better to relinquish them altogether. keywords: africa; boers; british; cape; chief; colony; convention; country; day; dutch; england; english; following; footnote; frere; god; government; great; kruger; law; mackenzie; man; native; peace; people; policy; present; president; principles; public; queen; question; races; sir; slavery; south; south africa; state; time; transvaal; war; work; years cache: 14299.txt plain text: 14299.txt item: #8 of 41 id: 15210 author: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) title: Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil date: None words: 68346 flesch: 77 summary: The new black folk were exploited as cheerfully as white Polacks and Italians; the rent of shacks mounted merrily, the street car lines counted gleeful gains, and the crimes of white men and black men flourished in the dark. The thing they wanted was even at their hands: here were black men, guilty not only of bidding for jobs which white men could have held at war prices, even if they could not fill, but also guilty of being black! keywords: africa; america; beauty; black; blood; brown; children; cry; dark; dead; death; democracy; earth; east; education; europe; eyes; face; fear; folk; freedom; god; good; government; great; half; hands; human; industry; king; labor; land; lay; life; like; little; louis; men; modern; mother; nation; negro; negroes; new; people; race; real; right; school; sea; service; slavery; soul; south; stranger; thing; thought; time; today; war; way; white; women; work; world; years cache: 15210.txt plain text: 15210.txt item: #9 of 41 id: 16810 author: Fortune, Timothy Thomas title: Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South date: None words: 77655 flesch: 65 summary: The corruption of the ballot by white men of the South is more pernicious than the misuse of it by black men; the perversion of the law in the apprehension and punishment of criminals, by being wielded almost exclusively against colored men, not only brings law into contempt of colored men but encourages crime among white men. Look to the misgovernment of the Reconstruction period for the answer--misgovernment by white men and black men who were lifted into a little brief authority by a mighty but unwieldy voting force. keywords: --a; american; black; capital; citizens; class; condition; cotton; country; day; death; education; free; good; government; industrial; interest; know; labor; laborers; land; law; life; man; men; mississippi; money; nation; nature; negro; negroes; new; people; population; power; property; question; race; right; river; school; slave; slavery; society; soil; south; southern; states; system; things; time; union; united; war; way; wealth; white; work; world; years cache: 16810.txt plain text: 16810.txt item: #10 of 41 id: 17875 author: Allen, William G., active 1849-1853 title: The American Prejudice Against Color An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily the Nation Got into an Uproar. date: None words: 25024 flesch: 70 summary: The reader will doubtless think it strange that such men should be members of a mob; and so it would be, if prejudice against color were not the saddest of all comments upon the meanness of human depravity. May such men be multiplied in America, and elsewhere, for surely there is need. keywords: allen; america; college; color; committee; country; elder; following; fulton; gentleman; heart; house; king; lady; left; man; marriage; men; miss; mob; new; porter; professor; state; syracuse; time; york cache: 17875.txt plain text: 17875.txt item: #11 of 41 id: 19746 author: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell) title: The Colonel's Dream date: None words: 86445 flesch: 79 summary: Old Peter was at Archie's shop one day, and they were talking about old times--good old times--for to old men old times are always good times, though history may tell another tale. There's a fine mind, colonel, that's never had a proper opportunity for development. keywords: ben; boy; business; caxton; child; clarendon; colonel; colonel french; day; dey; dudley; eyes; father; fetters; fine; good; graciella; hand; henry; home; hotel; house; know; lady; laura; life; little; long; look; man; matter; men; mill; mind; miss; moment; money; mrs; negro; negroes; new; night; office; people; peter; phil; place; run; state; suh; things; thought; time; town; treadwell; uncle; want; way; white; woman; work; years; york; young cache: 19746.txt plain text: 19746.txt item: #12 of 41 id: 29581 author: Ryan, Marah Ellis title: The Bondwoman date: None words: 124870 flesch: 81 summary: Oh, we have seen other men of your land here, remarked Dumaresque. Evilena waltzed around the table in her delight at the entire arrangement; boys in uniform; the longed-for additions to the festivities, and they would have to be a formidable lot if she could not find one of their number worth dancing with; she would show Dr. Delaven that other men did not think her only a baby to be teased! keywords: 12mo; away; captain; caron; child; cloth; colonel; come; course; day; days; delaven; door; dowager; dumaresque; evilena; eyes; face; find; gertrude; girl; glanced; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; judge; judithe; kenneth; lady; left; life; look; looking; loring; loringwood; love; madame; mahs; man; margeret; marquise; masterson; mcveigh; men; miss; monroe; monsieur; morning; mother; mrs; nelse; new; people; picture; pluto; question; right; room; smile; tell; things; thought; time; voice; way; white; window; woman; words; world; years cache: 29581.txt plain text: 29581.txt item: #13 of 41 id: 31055 author: Edwards, William James title: Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt date: None words: 40615 flesch: 76 summary: Thus far all of the State Supervisors for Negro schools have been white men, and they in turn have been given the power to select the County Supervisor for the Negro schools, all of which are colored. As unreasonable as it may seem, it is a fact that as the Negro population increases, in this section, the appropriation for Negro schools decreases. keywords: children; class; country; day; education; fact; farm; good; hill; home; land; life; man; men; money; negro; negroes; north; people; race; school; section; snow; snow hill; south; state; teachers; time; tuskegee; washington; way; white; work; years cache: 31055.txt plain text: 31055.txt item: #14 of 41 id: 3114 author: Warner, Charles Dudley title: The Education of the Negro date: None words: 5554 flesch: 59 summary: These work together to make what is called character, race character, and it is this which is transmitted from generation to generation. Upon this ugly race antagonism it is not necessary to enlarge here in discussing the problem of education, and I will leave it with the single observation that I have heard intelligent negroes, who were honestly at work, accumulating property and disposed to postpone active politics to a more convenient season, say that they had nothing to fear from the intelligent white population, but only from the envy of the ignorant. keywords: character; development; education; negro; negroes; race; south; states; work cache: 3114.txt plain text: 3114.txt item: #15 of 41 id: 31254 author: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) title: The Conservation of Races The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 2 date: None words: 4621 flesch: 57 summary: Many criteria of race differences have in the past been proposed, as color, hair, cranial measurements and language. But while race differences have followed mainly physical race lines, yet no mere physical distinctions would really define or explain the deeper differences--the cohesiveness and continuity of these groups. keywords: academy; american; differences; history; human; negro; people; race cache: 31254.txt plain text: 31254.txt item: #16 of 41 id: 31301 author: Cook, Charles C. title: A Comparative Study of the Negro Problem The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 4 date: None words: 6371 flesch: 64 summary: We ought then to come nearer than other peoples to a Christian life, to that better community, where one half of the world is not happy while the other half is miserable. The three nations, which have in modern times, most startled the world by their progress, are England, the United States, and Japan. keywords: day; england; english; japan; life; man; path; people; power; resistance; time; years cache: 31301.txt plain text: 31301.txt item: #17 of 41 id: 32142 author: Nourse, Alan Edward title: Marley's Chain date: None words: 5939 flesch: 93 summary: The government's opening a new uranium mine in a month or so--going to be a big project, they'll need lots of men--on Mercury-- Tam's eyes fell, a lump growing in his throat. Tam's problem was simple. keywords: dave; desk; eyes; face; man; tam; voice; years cache: 32142.txt plain text: 32142.txt item: #18 of 41 id: 32325 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) date: None words: 116074 flesch: 92 summary: Said he swum along behind me that night, and heard me yell every time, but dasn't answer, because he didn't want nobody to pick _him_ up and take him into slavery again. But at last, just as I was sailing by, _flash_ comes the light in Mary Jane's window! keywords: bed; canoe; come; dark; dat; day; dey; door; duke; going; good; hain't; half; hand; head; home; house; huck; jim; kind; king; left; little; long; look; man; men; mighty; mile; mind; minute; miss; money; nigger; people; place; pretty; raft; right; river; run; set; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; tom; town; trouble; warn't; water; way; woods; work cache: 32325.txt plain text: 32325.txt item: #19 of 41 id: 34028 author: Commons, John R. (John Rogers) title: Races and Immigrants in America date: None words: 61170 flesch: 59 summary: When once thus established in England and further developed in America we find that other races and peoples, accustomed to despotism and even savagery, and wholly unused to self-government, have been thrust into the delicate fabric. The Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam was therefore a business enterprise, and neither before nor after the conquest by the British was there any religious obstacle to the reception of other races and religions. keywords: = =; american; census; cent; century; children; chinese; cities; city; classes; contract; country; day; democracy; england; english; europe; foreign; german; government; immigrants; immigration; increase; industry; irish; italians; jews; labor; land; language; law; laws; living; native; negro; negroes; new; north; number; parents; people; population; problem; proportion; race; scotch; self; southern; states; suffrage; time; united; wages; white; work; years; york; | | cache: 34028.txt plain text: 34028.txt item: #20 of 41 id: 34847 author: None title: Following the Color Line An account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy date: None words: 115251 flesch: 70 summary: Finally, looking up a little street they saw dimly in the next block a group of Negro men. I know personally numbers of Negro men who have moved West and after accumulating a little, return to get a brother, sister, or an old father or mother, and they were compelled to return without them, their lives being imperilled; they had to leave and leave quick. keywords: atlanta; black; boston; business; carolina; cases; children; cities; citizens; city; class; colour; conditions; country; course; court; crime; day; education; fact; family; feeling; find; georgia; good; help; home; house; human; illustration; industrial; judge; labour; land; law; leaders; life; line; lynching; man; men; mob; money; negro; negroes; new; north; number; party; people; place; population; prejudice; present; problem; public; question; race; real; right; riot; school; slavery; sort; south; southern; state; system; time; town; washington; way; white; white south; women; work; years cache: 34847.txt plain text: 34847.txt item: #21 of 41 id: 36112 author: Edwards, Harry Stillwell title: Sons and Fathers date: None words: 126139 flesch: 85 summary: Norton spoke: Judge, this is Mr. Edward Morgan--you have corresponded with him. It seems that Mr. Edward Morgan found the woman lying in his yard, and that she died almost immediately after the discovery. keywords: away; barksdale; cambia; chapter; child; city; day; dead; death; door; drew; edward; edward morgan; evan; eyes; face; fact; family; father; form; friend; gaspard; general; gerald; gerald morgan; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; john; left; letter; life; look; man; mary; matter; memory; mind; moment; montjoy; morgan; mother; negro; new; night; note; open; picture; read; rita; room; royson; silence; tell; thought; time; virdow; voice; white; woman; world; years cache: 36112.txt plain text: 36112.txt item: #22 of 41 id: 36246 author: Ryan, Marah Ellis title: Told in the Hills: A Novel date: None words: 104255 flesch: 82 summary: and realize that other men can have! Jack turned on him like a flash. There are two classes of squaw men, as there are of other men on the frontier--the renegades and the usual percentage of honest and dishonest citizens. keywords: answer; bit; camp; country; day; door; eyes; face; find; fire; fred; genesee; girl; going; good; half; hand; hardy; head; hills; home; horse; indian; jack; jim; kalitan; kootenai; life; look; macdougall; man; men; miss; morning; mowitza; new; night; people; place; question; rachel; ranch; rest; snow; sort; speak; story; stuart; thing; thought; tillie; time; trail; voice; want; way; white; woman; words; work; young cache: 36246.txt plain text: 36246.txt item: #23 of 41 id: 37115 author: Gobineau, Arthur, comte de title: The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind date: None words: 116746 flesch: 56 summary: With this view, I subjoin further extracts from the celebrated _History of Civilization in Europe_, from which, I think, it will appear that few of the great truths comprised in the definition of _civilization_ have escaped the penetration and research of the illustrious writer, but that, being unable to divest himself of the idea of _unity_ of civilization, he has necessarily fallen into an error, with which a great metaphysician justly charges so many reasoners. I also speak of a _European_ civilization, in contradistinction to others of a different character. keywords: age; author; black; blood; capacity; case; causes; centuries; character; chinese; circumstances; civilization; classes; contrary; country; day; degree; development; difference; diversity; elements; empire; european; existence; fact; family; form; france; general; gobineau; government; great; history; human; ideas; individuals; influence; institutions; intellectual; laws; life; man; manners; means; men; nation; nature; negro; new; number; origin; people; place; point; political; population; power; present; progress; question; races; regard; religion; results; roman; rome; science; society; species; state; subject; system; tendency; term; time; tribes; type; unity; varieties; vol; white; world; years; | | cache: 37115.txt plain text: 37115.txt item: #24 of 41 id: 37408 author: Stoddard, Lothrop title: The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy date: None words: 84869 flesch: 61 summary: American Indian Amoor, 199 Anatolia, 211, 229 Andaman Islanders, 227 Anglo-French agreement, 70 Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 291 _ff._ Anglo-Oriental College, 60 Anglo-Saxons, Japanese agitation against, 50, 292; race-growth of, 155 _ff._; sacred union of, 281 Annamites, 17 Arab-negroid, 94 Arabia, location of, 57; Senussi in, 67; nationalist movements in, 77 Arabistan, definition of, 57; population of, 57 Arabs, 88 _ff._, 92 _ff._, 102, 146 Araucania, 111 Argentina, white man in, 105; population of, 114; agricultural development of, 114; immigration into, 115; Japanese immigration into, 138 Aryan race, 23, 200 Asia, 3, 4; home-land of white race, 5; of yellow race, 7; of brown race, 7; black race in, 7; antagonism toward white continents, 11 _ff._, 15, 22; Japan in, 43, 48, 52, 71; European conquests in, 70; renaissance in, 100; Latin America invaded by, 130, 138, 142; Europe assailed by, 146 _ff._, 237; white man in, 149 _ff._, 237 _ff._; anti-white sentiment in, 171, 237; Russia in, 203, 205 _ff._; Bolshevik agitators in, 220; centre of colored unrest, 229 _ff._; non-Asiatic lands penetrated by, 232; independence of, 232 _ff._; economic activity in, 241 _ff._, 244, 248; causes of poverty in, 243; population of, 249; Allies of the Great War, 40, 214 _Al Mowwayad_, 71 Alpine race, 162 _ff._, 165; and the war, 183; 202, 261 America, 4; black race in, 7, 87 _ff._ 99; race prejudice in, 11; 36; military preparations in, 39; Japan's attitude toward, 51 _ff._; red man in, 104; discovery of, 147; settlement of, 149; cost of war in, 177; triumph of, 214; danger to white race in, 303 Central, white civilization in, 113; race-mixture in, 128 _ff._; Japanese in, 131, 138 _ff._ Latin, red man in, 7, 104; Japanese in, 48, 131 _ff._; evolution of, 105; mixed blood in, 106 _ff._, 116 _ff._, 124, 128 _ff._, 166; revolution in, 108 _ff._; results of revolution in, 110 _ff._; oligarchies in, 110 _ff._; immigration into, 114; loss of white supremacy in, 115; anarchy in, 120 _ff._; inability of, to rule self, 128 _ff._; Asiatics in, 130 _ff._, 308; anti-Americanism in, 136; attitude of, toward yellow race, 137 _ff._; pressure of yellow race on, 139; present situation in, 140 _ff._; future of, 141 _ff._; Bolshevik agitation in, 220; danger of Asiatic penetration of, 232 _ff._, 249 _ff._, 303; white migration into, 302 North, white man's land, 3, 5, 104, 225; attitude of Japs toward, 52; Japs in, 131; Nordics in, 253; result of immigration on, 254 _ff._, 261 _ff._; need for prohibiting immigration into, 266 _ff._; a frontier against Asia, 284 South, colonization of, 3; white man's country, 5, 104; colored man's country, 6; half-caste in, 117; need for white immigration into, 118; Indianista movement, 124; Japs in, 131, 139. keywords: africa; alliance; america; asia; asiatic; black; blood; british; brown; central; century; china; chinese; civilization; close; conditions; control; country; course; day; east; eastern; empire; england; english; europe; european; fact; future; germany; half; history; immigration; indian; islam; japanese; labor; lands; latin; life; man; matter; men; modern; negro; new; nordics; north; past; peace; peoples; population; power; present; progress; race; racial; regions; relations; revolution; russia; south; states; time; united; war; western; white; white world; world; years; yellow cache: 37408.txt plain text: 37408.txt item: #25 of 41 id: 37890 author: Reed, John C. (John Calvin) title: The Brothers' War date: None words: 148312 flesch: 65 summary: But do let me inquire, would Professor DuBois have ever outstripped all the white children in a New England school, graduated creditably from two American universities, studied at the university of Berlin, acquired the degree of Master of Arts and then that of Doctor of Philosophy, been made in sociology fellow of Harvard and assistant of the university of Pennsylvania, become president of the American Negro Academy, got the professorship of economics and history in Atlanta University, and pushed forward as an author into prominent and most respectable place; all before he was thirty-six years old--would Professor DuBois have surpassed this brilliant career, if an evil, Dutch trader had not seized his grandfather's grandmother--two centuries ago?[143] If the transfer just mentioned had not been made what would now be Fred Douglass, Booker Washington, Richard R. Wright, Professor DuBois, Bishop Turner, and other great negroes, their good works and glory? Great men, like Washington, Jefferson, Calhoun, Jackson, and Lee; political and military heroes, judges, lawyers, and orators, such as the south has given birth to, in unbroken succession,--are the unmistakable signs of a great people. keywords: african; american; anti; average; beginning; believe; black; book; brothers; calhoun; cause; chapter; children; class; condition; confederate; congress; constitution; cotton; country; course; davis; day; death; education; end; england; fact; find; future; general; georgia; good; government; having; history; house; interest; labor; law; life; like; love; making; man; master; men; money; mrs; nation; nationalization; nature; negro; negroes; new; north; northern; note; number; party; people; place; power; president; property; public; question; race; real; right; secession; section; self; slavery; slaves; south; speech; states; stephens; subject; system; things; think; time; tom; toombs; union; united; united states; war; washington; way; webster; white; women; words; work; world; years cache: 37890.txt plain text: 37890.txt item: #26 of 41 id: 38830 author: Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) title: Unfettered: A Novel date: None words: 58810 flesch: 75 summary: He was now in a long room well crowded with Negro men and many women, who sat at tables engaged in various kinds of gaming. The decision reached by the assemblage of Negroes in the first burst of excitement over the posting of the notice demanding that Harry and Beulah leave the settlement, was adhered to, and on Christmas Eve several wagon loads of young Negro men and women started on their journey to the city. keywords: aunt; beulah; bloodworth; catherine; come; dalton; day; dorlan; dorlan warthell; eyes; face; fact; good; great; hand; harry; head; heart; home; house; human; lemuel; lemuel dalton; life; love; man; men; mind; morlene; negro; negroes; night; organization; party; people; place; race; republican; room; south; spirit; stephen; thought; time; warthell; way; white; wife; woman; work; world cache: 38830.txt plain text: 38830.txt item: #27 of 41 id: 4068 author: Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob) title: Froudacity; West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas date: None words: 47297 flesch: 47 summary: Alas, if the foregoing summary of the ghastly imaginings of Mr. Froude were true, in what a fool's paradise had the wisest and best amongst us been living, moving, and having our being! History, as against the hard and fast White-master and Black-slave theory so recklessly invented and confidently built upon by Mr. Froude, would show incontestably--(a) that for upwards of two hundred years before the Negro Emancipation, in 1838, there had never existed in one of those then British Colonies, which had been originally discovered and settled for Spain by the great Columbus or by his successors, the Conquistadores, any prohibition whatsoever, on the ground of race or colour, against the owning of slaves by any free person possessing the necessary means, and desirous of doing so; (b) that, as a consequence of this non-restriction, and from causes notoriously historical, numbers of blacks, half-breeds, and other non-Europeans, besides such of them as had become possessed of their property by inheritance, availed themselves of this virtual license, and in course of time constituted a very considerable proportion of the slave-holding section of those communities; (c) that these [14] dusky plantation-owners enjoyed and used in every possible sense the identical rights and privileges which were enjoyed and used by their pure-blooded Caucasian brother-slaveowners. keywords: according; african; anglo; author; black; book; british; case; colonial; colonies; colony; colour; course; day; english; fact; froude; good; government; governor; human; indian; indies; influence; inhabitants; justice; life; man; men; negro; negroes; official; people; persons; present; public; race; regard; self; sense; sir; skin; slave; slavery; time; trinidad; west; west indies; white; world; years cache: 4068.txt plain text: 4068.txt item: #28 of 41 id: 42257 author: Hart, Albert Bushnell title: The Southern South date: None words: 138206 flesch: 62 summary: | Annual | Cost of |Value of | |Earners.| | Wages. | $11.38 |--------| | | 600.95 | | $600.95 -------------------------------------------- keywords: + =; = +; = =; = |; alabama |; arizona |; arkansas |; average; black; border |; california |; carolina |; children; cities; city; columbia |; community; comparative; conditions; cotton; country; dakota |; delaware |; education; florida |; georgia |; good; half; hampshire |; hands; idaho |; illinois |; indiana |; iowa |; kentucky |; labor; life; louisiana |; man; maryland |; men; mexico |; michigan |; millions; minnesota |; mississippi |; missouri |; montana |; nebraska |; negro; negroes; nevada |; new; north |; northern; number; oklahoma |; oregon |; people; plantation; population; public; question; race; race problem; race question; rv |; schools; slavery; south carolina; south |; southern; states |; statistics; system; tennessee |; territory |; texas |; time; total |; utah |; vermont |; virginia |; washington |; way; west |; white; work; world; years; | +; | av; | finances; | students; | teachers; | value; | | cache: 42257.txt plain text: 42257.txt item: #29 of 41 id: 49315 author: Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de title: Ourika date: None words: 10693 flesch: 82 summary: To save me from slavery, and choose for me such a benefactress as Madame de B., was twice bestowing life upon me. Success gives courage, and every one was sure of being estimated a little above their real worth, by Madame de B.; for, without knowing it, she lent them a part of her own, and after seeing or listening to her people, fancied themselves like her. keywords: charles; de b.; grief; happiness; heart; life; madame; madame de; mind; ourika cache: 49315.txt plain text: 49315.txt item: #30 of 41 id: 5685 author: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) title: The Conservation of Races date: None words: 4551 flesch: 55 summary: Many criteria of race differences have in the past been proposed, as color, hair, cranial measurements and language. But while race differences have followed mainly physical race lines, yet no mere physical distinctions would really define or explain the deeper differences–the cohesiveness and continuity of these groups. keywords: academy; american; differences; history; human; negro; people; race cache: 5685.txt plain text: 5685.txt item: #31 of 41 id: 60020 author: Fontenay, Charles L. title: Pretty Quadroon date: None words: 8885 flesch: 86 summary: General Beauregard Courtney sat in his staff car atop a slight rise and watched the slow, meshing movement of his troops on the plains south of Tullahoma, Tennessee. The eastern sky glowed red over the Cumberlands and the artillery was thundering in the north when General Beauregard Courtney rode out toward the front. keywords: adjaha; beauregard; car; courtney; eyes; general; governor; man; memphis; piquette; south; tennessee; war cache: 60020.txt plain text: 60020.txt item: #32 of 41 id: 61199 author: Scott, Robert title: A Bad Town for Spacemen date: None words: 1253 flesch: 96 summary: But I had some nice memories of bars, memories from the early days. Otherwise you'd have had a dead ship full of dead men and no knowing why. keywords: bar; time cache: 61199.txt plain text: 61199.txt item: #33 of 41 id: 61529 author: Hunt, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Peter) title: Why Colored People in Philadelphia Are Excluded from the Street Cars date: None words: 10038 flesch: 57 summary: Some remarks lately communicated to the New York Anti-Slavery Standard, on the continued exclusion of colored people from our street cars, leave the impression that no efforts have been made here to procure for this class of people admission to these cars. It seems that immediately on their appointment, they called on the respective Presidents of the nineteen street railway companies, and, in a courteous manner, requested them to withdraw from their list of running regulations the rule excluding colored people. keywords: cars; case; colored; committee; good; man; men; people; public; question; race; slaves; south; state; white cache: 61529.txt plain text: 61529.txt item: #34 of 41 id: 7100 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05 date: None words: 9040 flesch: 93 summary: WELL, I got a good going-over in the morning from old Miss Watson on account of my clothes; but the widow she didn't scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave awhile if I could. YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. keywords: going; good; jim; man; time; tom; warn't; widow cache: 7100.txt plain text: 7100.txt item: #35 of 41 id: 7101 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 06 to 10 date: None words: 13704 flesch: 94 summary: Then he studied it over and said, couldn't I put on some of them old things and dress up like a girl? Yes, and I TOLD 'em so; I told old Thatcher so to his face. keywords: canoe; good; island; jim; man; pap; place; river; time; warn't; way cache: 7101.txt plain text: 7101.txt item: #36 of 41 id: 7102 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 date: None words: 12289 flesch: 94 summary: Yes, says I, and other times, when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off. But before night they changed around and judged it was done by a runaway nigger named Jim. keywords: come; dat; good; jim; man; right; time; warn't; way cache: 7102.txt plain text: 7102.txt item: #37 of 41 id: 7103 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 16 to 20 date: None words: 19136 flesch: 89 summary: Said he swum along behind me that night, and heard me yell every time, but dasn't answer, because he didn't want nobody to pick HIM up and take him into slavery again. I reckon that old man was a coward, Buck. keywords: buck; day; duke; good; jim; little; man; men; raft; right; river; tell; time; warn't; way; young cache: 7103.txt plain text: 7103.txt item: #38 of 41 id: 7104 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 21 to 25 date: None words: 13552 flesch: 88 summary: And look at Charles Second, and Louis Fourteen, and Louis Fifteen, and James Second, and Edward Second, and Richard Third, and forty more; besides all them Saxon heptarchies that used to rip around so in old times and raise Cain. You don't know kings, Jim, but I know them; and this old rip of ourn is one of the cleanest I've struck in history. keywords: duke; good; hands; head; king; man; men; people; right; time; town; warn't; way cache: 7104.txt plain text: 7104.txt item: #39 of 41 id: 7105 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 26 to 30 date: None words: 14758 flesch: 91 summary: Said it warn't no fair test. Said his brother William was the cussedest joker in the world, and hadn't tried to write --HE see William was going to play one of his jokes the minute he put the pen to paper. keywords: come; duke; good; jane; kind; king; mary; money; think; warn't; way cache: 7105.txt plain text: 7105.txt item: #40 of 41 id: 7106 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 31 to 35 date: None words: 14163 flesch: 92 summary: Tom had his store clothes on, and an audience--and that was always nuts for Tom Sawyer. I set up a shout--and then another--and then another one; and run this way and that in the woods, whooping and screeching; but it warn't no use--old Jim was gone. keywords: come; good; jim; kind; nigger; old; right; thing; time; tom; warn't; way cache: 7106.txt plain text: 7106.txt item: #41 of 41 id: 7107 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to the Last date: None words: 18991 flesch: 88 summary: Said we'd got to post Jim first. Jim says: Why, Mars Tom, I hain't got no coat o' arm; I hain't got nuffn but dish yer ole shirt, en you knows I got to keep de journal on dat. keywords: aunt; bed; good; jim; look; nigger; right; sally; things; think; time; tom; warn't; way; went cache: 7107.txt plain text: 7107.txt