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id: 17826
author: Old Elizabeth
title: Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman
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summary:
  Even the elders of our meeting joined with the wicked people, and said such meetings must be stopped, and that woman quieted. I felt very unworthy and small, notwithstanding the Lord had shown himself with great power, insomuch that conjecturers and critics were constrained to join in praise to his great name; for truly, we had times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.


id: 17820
author: Delaney, Lucy A. (Lucy Ann)
title: From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom
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sentence: 343
flesch: 73
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summary:
  With mother, father and sister, a pleasant home and surroundings, what happier child than I! Having been brought up in a free State, mother had learned much to her advantage, which would have been impossible in a slave State, and which she now proposed to turn to account for the benefit of her daughter.


id: 17827
author: Thompson, L. S. (Lucy S.)
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title:
  The Story of Mattie J. Jackson Her Parentage—Experience of Eighteen years in Slavery—Incidents during the War—Her Escape from Slavery

summary:
  During that time my father and mother were in the same neighborhood, but a short distance from each other. He had tantalized her in every possible way to humiliate and annoy her; yet while he could demand her services he appreciated and placed perfect confidence in mother and family.


id: 15118
author: Lane, Lunsford
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title:
  The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. Embracing an account of his early life, the redemption by purchase of himself and family from slavery, and his banishment from the place of his birth for the crime of wearing a colored skin

summary:
  But grace (of course) had not wrought in the same _manner_ upon the heart of Mr. Smith, as nature had done upon that of Mr. Boylan, who made no religious profession. Mr. Boylan, whose name has repeatedly occurred in this publication, was more than a father to me; and Mr. Smith and Mr. Loring, and many other gentlemen, whose names it would give me pleasure to mention, were exceedingly kind.


id: 17864
author: Burton, Annie L.
title: Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days
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  Should coming days be cold and dark, We need not cease our singing; That perfect rest nought can molest, Where golden harps are ringing. The first day in the hut was a rainy day; and as night drew near it grew more fierce, and we children had gathered some little fagots to make a fire by the time mother came home, with something for us to eat, such as she had gathered through the day.


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

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


id: 45631
author: Northup, Solomon
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title:
  Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana

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


