This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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17827 | Ben Butler then was ordered down to regulate the city; He made the rebels walk a chalk, and was not that a pity? |
17827 | O, Father, must they part? |
17827 | Why was he not spared? |
15118 | And why must I be banished? |
15118 | But I can not describe my feelings to those who have never been slaves; then why should I attempt it? |
15118 | I could draw in a full long breath, with no one to say to the ribs,"why do ye so?" |
15118 | I had been laboring to buy my family; and how then could they suppose me to be in league with the abolitionists? |
15118 | What are thy little thoughts about? |
17820 | Ca n''t I go see my mother, first? |
17820 | Why do you want to put that poor young girl in jail? |
17820 | And what better can we do than to live for others? |
17820 | I do n''t suppose the jury was out twenty minutes were they?" |
17820 | Lord, how long, how long?" |
17820 | Yet, how was I to make people believe? |
17820 | the overflowing thankfulness of my grateful heart at that moment, who could picture it? |
17826 | After I had this view, I thought I heard a voice saying,"Art thou willing to be saved?" |
17826 | Again I was asked,"Art thou willing to be saved in my way?" |
17826 | Are we worthy of greater punishment for praying to Him? |
17826 | How do they rest when the ungodly are dancing and fiddling till midnight? |
17826 | I stood speechless until he asked me again,"Art thou willing to be saved in my way?" |
17826 | Is the cause of God to be destroyed for this purpose?" |
17826 | It was hard for men to travel, and what would women do? |
17826 | One day as I was going to my old place behind the hay- stacks to pray, I was assailed with this language,"Are you going there to weep and pray? |
17826 | Why are not they molested by the watchmen? |
17826 | and are we to be prohibited from doing so, that sinners may remain slumbering in their sins?" |
17826 | and if I had been ordained? |
17826 | and why should we be for praising God, our Maker? |
17864 | But,she said,"what will the niggers do if they are free? |
17864 | Lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine: Are they not enough for Thee? |
17864 | Lord, whence are Thy hands so rent and torn? |
17864 | Lord, whence are those blood- drops all the way That mark out the mountain''s track? |
17864 | O, my God, what shall we do? |
17864 | Oh, good, good,said mistress,"and what did Jeff Davis say?" |
17864 | What does Jeff Davis mean by that? |
17864 | Are those pease done, young ones?" |
17864 | Are we not part and parcel of yourselves? |
17864 | But he passed by Coldly, and answered, Rose? |
17864 | Do n''t you want to see and speak to and caress your darling child? |
17864 | Do you understand me, Rit and Henry?" |
17864 | Give me crumbs to eat today? |
17864 | How could light Feel jealousy of heat, plant of the leaf, Or competition dwell''twixt lip and smile? |
17864 | How could the hand be enemy of the arm, Or seed and sod be rivals? |
17864 | I thought this: that Henry, Caroline and myself, Louise, would have to go as others had done, and where should we go and what should we do? |
17864 | My mother said to the woman,"Honey, ai n''t you got no husband?" |
17864 | My mother said,"Ai n''t you got some way to ride there?" |
17864 | My mother said,"How long will it take you to get there?" |
17864 | My mother said,"In the name of the Lord, where are you going on such a night, with these children?" |
17864 | Now, are the negroes, as a whole, guilty of these charges? |
17864 | She turned and said to the white woman,"Have you- all had anything to eat?" |
17864 | Up I led him, where In the warm sun my rose bloomed gloriously-- Smiling and saying, Lo, is it not fair? |
17864 | What about this new educated negro? |
17864 | What was it I heard you say? |
17864 | Why waste more time in controversy, when There is not time enough for all of love, Our rightful occupation in this life? |
17864 | Will you please let me stop here to- night, out of the rain, with my children?" |
9941 | Did Mr. Leadbitter know when you left? |
9941 | How and when did you learn to write? |
9941 | Who wrote these names and weights on this slate, Charles? |
9941 | You ran away, did you? |
9941 | A gentleman was passing along the highway, when he was met by a poor maniac, who accosted him, saying,"What do you thank God for?" |
9941 | Always praying? |
9941 | Did the"law"prohibit me from studying lessons out of a book about Jesus, and learning to read about Jesus as my mistress did? |
9941 | God had delivered him from the very tomb of death; why need I fear? |
9941 | He looked at me with astonishment, and in surprise asked,"What are you doing here?" |
9941 | How could I ever expect to escape to a country where I could be a free man? |
9941 | How many of you ever think to thank God for sunshine or for reason? |
9941 | If I, a slave, could accomplish this much, how much should the favored preachers of the country accomplish? |
9941 | Strange, was it not? |
9941 | Then what had we, poor wretches, to thank God for? |
9941 | What had I to complain of? |
9941 | What law? |
9941 | What was to be done with me for my unpardonable crime? |
9941 | What was to be my fate? |
9941 | What would you have done if you had been in her place? |
9941 | When my mistress sent my young mistresses to Jesus would n''t she send me along with them just the same as she sent me to school with them? |
9941 | Why could n''t we lighten our young masters and mistresses of that labor as well as other kinds of labor? |
9941 | Why not? |
9941 | Why should_ I_ not study lessons in the school- house for my young mistresses? |
9941 | Why was I so faithful and dutiful to my slave master? |
9941 | what is that?" |
45631 | And did n''t take it? |
45631 | And your wife''s name before her marriage? |
45631 | Are you going without a pass? |
45631 | Captain, where''s Platt? |
45631 | D''ye hear that? |
45631 | Did n''t I tell you last night to get a keg of nails of Chapin? |
45631 | Did you ever live there? |
45631 | Did you write a letter for a colored man at that place to some gentleman in Saratoga Springs? |
45631 | Do you see those pine trees yonder? |
45631 | Hav''nt you asked that fellow, Armsby, to mail a letter for you at Marksville? |
45631 | Have you a family? |
45631 | He is rather a smart boy, ai n''t he? |
45631 | How came you here? |
45631 | How do you like_ tanning_? |
45631 | How do you like_ tanning_? |
45631 | How do you think you''ll get there? |
45631 | How long have you owned this plantation,_ say_, you d----d nigger? |
45631 | How would you like to work for me? |
45631 | I say, who wrote that letter? |
45631 | Now, then,inquired one of Tibeats''companions,"where shall we hang the nigger?" |
45631 | Platt, do you know this gentleman? |
45631 | Platt, you lying nigger,_ have_ I? |
45631 | So, Platt, you''re tired of scraping cotton, are you? 45631 Stop a moment,"said he;"have you any other name than Platt?" |
45631 | Wan''t you over to Shaw''s night before last? |
45631 | Well, boy, where did you come from? |
45631 | Well, how''s this? |
45631 | Well, my boy, how do you feel now? |
45631 | What did you say to Pats? |
45631 | What is her_ price_? 45631 What is the matter with the nails?" |
45631 | What is the matter? |
45631 | What is your name? |
45631 | What were your children''s names? |
45631 | When did you last see him, and where is he? |
45631 | Where are you going now, Platt? |
45631 | Where do your niggers hold Christmas? |
45631 | Where does William Ford live? |
45631 | Where does he live? |
45631 | Where does that gentleman live? |
45631 | Where? |
45631 | Which is the way to his place? |
45631 | Who are you? 45631 Who are you?" |
45631 | Who married you? |
45631 | Who shipped_ that_ nigger? |
45631 | Why, Platt, what put that into your head? |
45631 | You have seen none of those in this part of the country, I presume? |
45631 | You worked under Myers at Peter Tanner''s, did n''t you? |
45631 | You''re the nigger,he said to me on my arrival--"You''re the nigger that flogged your master, eh? |
45631 | Your name is Platt, is it? |
45631 | ''He that is writing for me--''Where did Bass work last summer?" |
45631 | Ah, yes-- like to travel for your health, may be? |
45631 | And what difference is there in the color of the soul? |
45631 | Are all men created free and equal as the Declaration of Independence holds they are?" |
45631 | But this question of_ Slavery_; what_ right_ have you to your niggers when you come down to the point?" |
45631 | Did''nt he want you to hire him for an overseer?" |
45631 | Goin''wid''em? |
45631 | He must take me for a soft, to think he can come it over me with them kind of yarns, musn''t he? |
45631 | How could I write a letter without any ink or paper? |
45631 | How did you happen to get here? |
45631 | If they do n''t know as much as their masters, whose fault is it? |
45631 | Is every thing right because the law allows it? |
45631 | It runneth as follows:"Who''s been here since I''ve been gone? |
45631 | Now you d----d nigger,"he exclaimed,"why did you not tell me that when I bought you?" |
45631 | Now, in the sight of God, what is the difference, Epps, between a white man and a black one?" |
45631 | Now, who is it?" |
45631 | O, de lor'', did''nt Platt pick his feet right up, tho'', hey? |
45631 | Pointing towards Northup, standing a few rods distant, he demanded--"Do you know that man?" |
45631 | Pray, what is it?" |
45631 | So you''re going into the tanning business? |
45631 | Soon Arthur would rejoin his family, and have the satisfaction of seeing his wrongs avenged: my family, alas, should I ever see them more? |
45631 | Suppose they''d pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?" |
45631 | Talk about black skin, and black blood; why, how many slaves are there on this bayou as white as either of us? |
45631 | They are held in bondage, generation after generation, deprived of mental improvement, and who can expect them to possess much knowledge? |
45631 | Walking up to Bob, the sheriff inquired:"Where''s the boy they call Platt?" |
45631 | We were busily at work in the afternoon, when I stopped suddenly and said--"Master Bass, I want to ask you what part of the country you came from?" |
45631 | Were the events of the last few weeks realities indeed?--or was I passing only through the dismal phases of a long, protracted dream? |
45631 | What had I done to deserve imprisonment in such a dungeon? |
45631 | What have you got to say to that, ha?" |
45631 | What was the meaning of these chains? |
45631 | What would become of me? |
45631 | What would become of them? |
45631 | Where was I? |
45631 | Where were Brown and Hamilton? |
45631 | While hoeing by the side of Patsey, she exclaimed, in a low voice, suddenly,"Platt, d''ye see old Hog- Jaw beckoning me to come to him?" |
45631 | Whither should I fly? |
45631 | Who would befriend me? |
45631 | Why could they not be purchased together? |
45631 | Why do n''t you come forward?" |
45631 | Why had I not died in my young years-- before God had given me children to love and live for? |
45631 | Why not let her have one of her dear children? |
45631 | Wonder if you know who he is?" |
45631 | You would like to change your master, eh? |
45631 | You''d call them feller citizens, I s''pose?" |
45631 | You''re a''portant character-- you''re a great nigger-- very remarkable nigger, ai n''t ye? |
45631 | You''re fond of moving round-- traveler-- ain''t ye? |
45631 | You''re the nigger that kicks, and holds carpenter Tibeats by the leg, and wallops him, are ye? |
45631 | _ Buy_ her?" |
45631 | and"What is coming off to- night, Platt?" |
45631 | what d''ye think? |
45631 | what have you been doing up there?" |
45631 | what''ll become of me?" |