A Child's Anti-Slavery Book

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Various. A Child's Anti-Slavery Book

A FEW WORDS ABOUT AMERICAN SLAVE CHILDREN

LITTLE LEWIS:

MARK AND HASTY; OR, SLAVE-LIFE IN MISSOURI. BY MATILDA G. THOMPSON

PREFACE

MARK AND HASTY

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

AUNT JUDY'S STORY: A STORY FROM REAL LIFE. BY MATILDA G. THOMPSON

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

"ME NEBER GIB IT UP!"

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"A, B, C," said little Lewis to himself, as he bent eagerly over a ragged primer. "Here's anoder A, an' there's anoder, an' there's anoder C, but I can't find anoder B. Missy Katy said I must find just so many as I can. Dear little Missy Katy! an' wont I be just so good as ever I can, an' learn to read, an' when I get to be a man I'll call myself white folks; for I'm a most as white as Massa Harry is now, when he runs out widout his hat; A, B, C." And so the little fellow ran on, thinking what a fine man he would be when he had learned to read.

Just then he heard a shrill laugh in the distance, and the cry, "Lew!

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Imagine his terror, then, as she seized him rudely by the wrists and exclaimed, "It's you, is it? a little slave boy! I'll fix you so they'll never get you!"

Then she picked him up in her arms and started to run with him, as if she would throw him into the well. The little fellow screamed with fright. Aunt Sally ran after her, crying at the top of her voice, "Nancy, O Nancy! don't now!" And then a big negro darted out of the stables, crying "Stop her there! catch her!"

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