The American People in the Antebellum SouthPendulum Press, 1973 - 175 Seiten |
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... tell their ages . I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege . I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my master concerning it . He deemed all such inquiries on the part of a slave improper and impertinent ...
... tell their ages . I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege . I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my master concerning it . He deemed all such inquiries on the part of a slave improper and impertinent ...
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... tell ' em so , neither . I knows ' em , I knows white folks from their birth ; only difference is I ain't birthed one , that's the only difference . The sight of ' em don't excite me one bit , I tell you , ' cause I know white folks ...
... tell ' em so , neither . I knows ' em , I knows white folks from their birth ; only difference is I ain't birthed one , that's the only difference . The sight of ' em don't excite me one bit , I tell you , ' cause I know white folks ...
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... tell me to go out in the yard and wake up . She couldn't tell him that I had been hitting her all in the face . I done that woman bad . She was so mean to me . Well , she died and all the slaves come in the house just a hollering and ...
... tell me to go out in the yard and wake up . She couldn't tell him that I had been hitting her all in the face . I done that woman bad . She was so mean to me . Well , she died and all the slaves come in the house just a hollering and ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
African American antebellum Anthony Benjamin Tappan better brother buried C. C. JONES called carrion crows cemeteries Charles child church coffins corpses daughter dead dear Mother death Diary from Dixie door Elsie Clews Parsons epidemic Epps eyes father feel field Frances Trollope Frederick Douglass girl ground Gullah hand head hear heard heart horse Howard Association ignorant John JONES My dear kind labor lady live look married Martha Ann master Maybank mistress morning mulatto murder negroes negur never nigger night North Carolina overseer persons plantation planters poor whites Poussaint reprinted by permission Ruth Savannah scene servants sister slaveholders slavery slaves social society Solomon Northup soon South tell thing tion told whip white folks wife Wilson Wolof woman women woods yellow fever young
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