Peculiar: A Tale of the Great TransitionCarleton, 1864 - 500 páginas |
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... dress is significant of past rather than present familiari- ty with a fashionable wardrobe . If she ever wore jewels , she has parted with all of them , for there is not even a plain gold ring on her forefinger . Her robe is a simple ...
... dress is significant of past rather than present familiari- ty with a fashionable wardrobe . If she ever wore jewels , she has parted with all of them , for there is not even a plain gold ring on her forefinger . Her robe is a simple ...
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... dresses , and grew very economical in providing for the household . I am no epicure , but have been accustomed to the best in articles of food . I soon discovered that everything in the way of pro- visions brought into the house was of ...
... dresses , and grew very economical in providing for the household . I am no epicure , but have been accustomed to the best in articles of food . I soon discovered that everything in the way of pro- visions brought into the house was of ...
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... dress my mother's hair ; he is now my ad- viser and friend . Born a slave in the town of St. Mark in St. Domingo in 1766 , Pierre Toussaint was twelve years the junior of that fellow - slave , the celebrated Toussaint l'Ouverture , born ...
... dress my mother's hair ; he is now my ad- viser and friend . Born a slave in the town of St. Mark in St. Domingo in 1766 , Pierre Toussaint was twelve years the junior of that fellow - slave , the celebrated Toussaint l'Ouverture , born ...
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... dress that dis- tinguished him from the mob of young business - men , except that a critical eye would detect that his clothes were well pre- served . Few of his old coats were made to do service on the backs of the poor . Charlton ...
... dress that dis- tinguished him from the mob of young business - men , except that a critical eye would detect that his clothes were well pre- served . Few of his old coats were made to do service on the backs of the poor . Charlton ...
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... dress clung to her person as if held by an invisible hand . * A bandore - a stringed musical instrument the name of which has been converted by the negroes into banjo hung on a nail in the wall . One moonlight evening , when no third ...
... dress clung to her person as if held by an invisible hand . * A bandore - a stringed musical instrument the name of which has been converted by the negroes into banjo hung on a nail in the wall . One moonlight evening , when no third ...
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Abolitionism Abolitionist arms Artful Dodger asked Aylesford barouche beautiful believe Berwick Berwick family Blake called Captain carriage Charles Charlton child Clara Colonel Delancy Hyde Colonel Hyde colored cried cui bono damned Yankee dear door dress drew Esha Estelle exclaimed eyes face father gentleman Gentry girl give hair hand heard heart hour hunderd hundred dollars Josephine Kenrick kiss Kunnle Laura letter look Madame Volney Maloney Massa minutes mother mulatto negro never nigger Number once Onslow Orleans passed Pat Maloney Peek Perdita person pocket Pompilard Pontiac poor quadroon Quattles Ratcliff replied returned Ripper Robson seemed Semmes slave slavery soon Street suddenly tell thar there's thought thousand dollars tion told took Toussaint Vance walked wife Wigman window Winslow woman words wounded Yankee
Referencias a este libro
Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone with the Wind Tim A. Ryan Vista previa limitada - 2008 |