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id: 15118
author: Lane, Lunsford
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  [Footnote A: 175 whites--207 free people of color--and 2,244 slaves. One day, while I was in this state of mind, my father gave me a small Legislature sit in Raleigh every year, I sold these articles considerably remained, nominally only, the slave of Mr. Smith for a year; when, feeling number of her slaves from their families and friends--but not me. master of my wife, Mr. Smith, had separated members of families by remain in the State long enough to purchase my family. remain a limited time within the State, until he can remove his family State, and leave my wife and my children never to see them more. him among other slaves this family; and Freeman removed also to that city. kindness of the friends of the colored man in the North, for assistance, his hand a permit to visit the State for a sufficient time to accomplish

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  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


id: 20005
author: Davis, Noah
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  and two Children--Great Distress of Mind--Generous Assistance--Church House for the African Baptist Church--Heavy Indebtedness--Account New Testament I read, after I felt the pardoning love of God in my soul. years, working, part of the time, with a carpenter, who was building a always try to get to meeting in time to hear the preacher read a chapter she can save you." But this suggestion appeared to be offensive to God. Then came another thought,--"As my master was a rich man, could he not Son. My soul was filled with love to God and Jesus Christ. my white Baptist friends in Baltimore, through my pastor, Rev. Sam''l continued in this place for nearly a year, teaching the little children, Children--Great Distress of Mind--Generous Assistance--Church Matters. thousand dollars on the subscription book of the Church towards erecting the largest and best week-day school for colored children in the city--a Baptist churches generally, and especially from Rev. Messrs.

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  A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man Written by Himself, At The Age of Fifty-Four


id: 17820
title: From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom
author: Delaney, Lucy A. (Lucy Ann)
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  With mother, father and sister, a pleasant home and surroundings, what Having been brought up in a free State, mother had learned much to her Mrs. Cox, but to run away, as soon as chance offered, to Canada, where On the return of Mrs. Cox to St. Louis she sent for my mother and told I was a small girl at that time, but remember how wildly mother After my mother''s return, she decided to sue for her freedom, and for morning, before the white people had arisen, a friend of my mother At the time my mother entered suit for her freedom, she was not After advice by competent persons, mother went to Judge Edward Bates mother lived at the time of her abduction; also affidavits of Mr. and (Living with Mrs. Posey was a little negro girl, named Polly Crocket, (Living with Mrs. Posey was a little negro girl, named Polly Crocket,


id: 23321
title: The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy
author: Flickinger, Robert Elliott
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  special educational needs of the young people in the circuit of churches to re-establish this school and church work in the Territory. mission school buildings, a strongly built stone church 30 by 50 feet, a of an ample church building and rendered many years of faithful service. Bible shall be read every school day, in the presence of the scholars in "Our state schools have no place for the God of the Bible, nor for organization of the church, followed by the Sunday school, the week-day completion he taught that year the first term of week day school among The Oak Hill church and school happened to be near the center of the Oak Hill church from the time it was founded in 1869, continued to serve serving her sixth year as teacher of the public school at Millerton. Oak Hill, Church, School, 12, 101, 103;


id: 6058
title: Bricks Without Straw: A Novel
author: Tourgée, Albion Winegar
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  ter mind ''em dat der daddy wuz jes anudder man''s critter one time. "Pshaw, now," said Nimbus, "'' what sort o'' way is dat ter hev all dis yer time, an'' now I''se gwine ter hab my way fer a little I tell yer what, ''Liab, it''s gwine ter be great times fer us niggers, used ter wonder dat some pore white man like Marse War'', dat knowed "All right," said Nimbus coolly; "jes yer pay my wife what''s due "Wal," said Nimbus, "ef dat''s what yer say, we''ll hev ter let de "Glad ter know it, Berry," said Nimbus, shaking the other''s hand "How de debble yer come ter sign sech a paper, Berry?" said Nimbus. wants ter try an'' whip Nimbus, jes let ''em come on," he said, "I am afraid you are right, Nimbus," said the white man, with a "Dat''s what I want ter know, Miss Mollie," said the woman.


id: 7295
title: A Woman''s Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland
author: Haviland, Laura S. (Laura Smith)
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  Him who had said, "Suffer little children to come unto me," and again told them of a slave family, who, after living twenty years in Indiana, return home a colored man came to James, evidently quite excited, and said: "We have just heard there is a colored man here having trouble Said the man, "I am as free as you are; and to live a slave I never of the kind friends who had paid good wages for his work, and said he good family, but in a poor place," said our venerable friend. The day following I met the sick man again, and as soon as I entered wants ''im, au'' I went to dis white man, an'' ax ''im for his boy ten year young woman who gave for that sick man, without giving me time to ask old man said to one of the ministers, as he placed his hand on his


id: 8872
title: Report on the Condition of the South
author: Schurz, Carl
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  there is not a military force to protect him." (Accompanying document No. 32.) Mr. William King, a citizen of Georgia, well known in that State, general assertions, quoting instances in which negro laborers were working treated in every way contrary to the requirements of General Orders No. 129, from the War Department." (Accompanying document No. 25.) As late as When Southern people speak of the insolence of the negro, they generally in the State courts or to have all cases in which colored people were of the negro and of free labor in the south--the Freedmen''s Bureau--is people assume that free negro labor will not work, and therefore they are of what the general good at the present time requires in the way of State The freedmen and colored people of Mobile are, as a general thing, suffrage to every man in the State, and the negroes will elect officers to


id: 38479
title: The Freedmen''s Book
author: Child, Lydia Maria
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  time to time, "William, thy master talks of letting thee be free." He In process of time he married a black slave, who is said to have been white planters sent their mulatto children to France to be educated like plantation," said he, "and take care of the interests of the good old revenge and dread of Slavery, killed white men, women, and children I want to tell you a story of a poor little slave-girl who lived and news, and said, "Bress de Lord and de good English people." black children were born to be slaves; and now he heard his master say Lord _had_ a great work for him to do; and in His own good time he had He said if a man carried off a slave that did not of men, and a great friend of the colored people." "That makes it all


