Peculiar: A Tale of the Great TransitionCarleton, 1864 - 500 páginas |
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... play the blackleg and the sharper in a matter of the affections is not penal . Success consecrates the crime ; and the victim , when her eyes are at length opened to the extent of the deception and the misery , must continue to submit ...
... play the blackleg and the sharper in a matter of the affections is not penal . Success consecrates the crime ; and the victim , when her eyes are at length opened to the extent of the deception and the misery , must continue to submit ...
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... play on the flute ; and his musical taste , if cultivated , might have been a saving element of grace . But finding that in a single year he had spent ten dollars in concert tickets , he indignantly repudi- ated music , and shut his ...
... play on the flute ; and his musical taste , if cultivated , might have been a saving element of grace . But finding that in a single year he had spent ten dollars in concert tickets , he indignantly repudi- ated music , and shut his ...
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... play so well on the piano that he was often called on to show off before visitors . " Was whipped twice , and then not badly , at Herbert's : once for stealing some fruit , once for trying to teach a slave to read . Family very pious ...
... play so well on the piano that he was often called on to show off before visitors . " Was whipped twice , and then not badly , at Herbert's : once for stealing some fruit , once for trying to teach a slave to read . Family very pious ...
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... playing possum with me all the voyage , — keeping dark , and pretending to be my friend , meaning all the while to have me arrested in port . No sooner had he dropped anchor than he sent on shore for the officers . But the mate tipped ...
... playing possum with me all the voyage , — keeping dark , and pretending to be my friend , meaning all the while to have me arrested in port . No sooner had he dropped anchor than he sent on shore for the officers . But the mate tipped ...
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... playing with him , an infant ; and when he thought of that father's fate , shot down for resisting the lash , he felt as if he could tear the first up- holder of slavery he might meet limb from limb , in his rage . The mother died , and ...
... playing with him , an infant ; and when he thought of that father's fate , shot down for resisting the lash , he felt as if he could tear the first up- holder of slavery he might meet limb from limb , in his rage . The mother died , and ...
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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
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Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone with the Wind Tim A. Ryan Vista previa limitada - 2008 |