An Introduction to Black Literature in America: From 1746 to the PresentLindsay Patterson Publishers Agency, 1976 - 302 pages |
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Page 5
... leave that to the Reader as he goes along , and so I shall only relate Matters of Fact as they occur to my Mind . On Monday , 25th Day of December , 1747 , with the leave of my Master , I went from Marsh- field , with an Intention to go ...
... leave that to the Reader as he goes along , and so I shall only relate Matters of Fact as they occur to my Mind . On Monday , 25th Day of December , 1747 , with the leave of my Master , I went from Marsh- field , with an Intention to go ...
Page 48
... leave the South . On making arrangements for a passage from Norfolk to Bal- timore , I found that the " Free Papers " which every man of color in a slave state must possess in order to be able to prove , in case of his being apprehended ...
... leave the South . On making arrangements for a passage from Norfolk to Bal- timore , I found that the " Free Papers " which every man of color in a slave state must possess in order to be able to prove , in case of his being apprehended ...
Page 264
... leave my things alone ! Please leave my things alone ! " Even after Ruth staggered from the room , The Nun remained huddled over the shredded black heap on the sunny floor , her straw head crying into the black pieces , " Oh , please ...
... leave my things alone ! Please leave my things alone ! " Even after Ruth staggered from the room , The Nun remained huddled over the shredded black heap on the sunny floor , her straw head crying into the black pieces , " Oh , please ...
Contents
Introduction Lindsay Patterson | 5 |
A Plan of Peace Office for the United States Benjamin Banneker | 17 |
Poetry | 27 |
Copyright | |
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