Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-bellum Days: Or, A Story Based on FactsState Company, printers, 1911 - Всего страниц: 186 Account by a former slave of life on the plantation, describing the work, religious, funerary, courting, and recreation practices of the slaves, as well as the social relations between slaves and slaveowners. Appendix discusses social and racial relations after Emancipation and presents the author's views on the state of race relations in the early 20th century. |
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Стр. 85 - WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Стр. 175 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.
Стр. 73 - The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonas ; and, behold , a greater than Jonas is here.
Стр. 40 - Asleep in Jesus: far from thee Thy kindred and their graves may be ; But thine is still a blessed sleep, From which none ever wakes to weep.
Стр. 117 - In every joy that crowns my days, In every pain I bear, My heart shall find delight in praise, Or seek relief in prayer.
Стр. 86 - HARK! from the tombs a doleful sound! My ears attend the cry; " Ye living men, come view the ground, Where you must shortly lie. 2 " Princes, this clay must be your bed, In spite of all your towers; The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
Стр. 78 - So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper ? arise, call upon thy god, if so be that God will think upon us, that 7 we perish not.
Стр. 3 - Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart, as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair: Over my slumbers your loving watch keep, Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep.
Стр. 75 - The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it : for they repented at the preaching of Jonah ; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
Стр. 78 - I fear the Lord the God of Heaven who hath made the sea and the dry land!