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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
one of your calves. But he went to the University of the West, where he studied the science of Liberty; and, having taken his degrees, he finally commenced the public practice of humanity in Kansas. Such were his humanities — he would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man. Henry D. Thoreau. He would always choose to stay at home & work hard rather than be sent to school; & during the warm season might generally be seen barefooted & bareheaded: with Buck skin Breeches suspended often with one leather strap over his shoulder but sometimes with Two. To be sent off through the wilderness alone to very considerable distances was particularly his delight; & in this he was often indulged so that by the time he was Twelve years old he was sent off more than a Hundred Miles with companies of cattle; & he would have thought his character much injured had he been obliged to be helped in any such job. This was a boyish kind of feeling but characteristi
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: the father of the man. (search)
one of your calves. But he went to the University of the West, where he studied the science of Liberty; and, having taken his degrees, he finally commenced the public practice of humanity in Kansas. Such were his humanities — he would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man. Henry D. Thoreau. He would always choose to stay at home & work hard rather than be sent to school; & during the warm season might generally be seen barefooted & bareheaded: with Buck skin Breeches suspended often with one leather strap over his shoulder but sometimes with Two. To be sent off through the wilderness alone to very considerable distances was particularly his delight; & in this he was often indulged so that by the time he was Twelve years old he was sent off more than a Hundred Miles with companies of cattle; & he would have thought his character much injured had he been obliged to be helped in any such job. This was a boyish kind of feeling but characteristi
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4: Exodus. (search)
athetic negress remarked: Gosh! massa's in a bad fix — hog no killed — corn no gathered — nigger run away: laws-a-me! what'll massa do? Jim, who was driving an ox team, supposed to belong to the estate, asked one of the liberators, How far is it to Canada? Twenty-five hundred miles. Twenty-five hundred! Laws-a-massa! Twenty-five hundred miles! No get dar 'fore spring! cried Jim, as, raising his heavy whip and bringing it down on the ox's back, he shouted impatiently--Whoa-la, Buck, get up dar-g'lang, Bell! A little boy of the party grasped his father by the leg and asked: Hows ye feel, fadder, when you's free? These incidents were related by Kagi. These liberated slaves constituted four families: one man, his wife, and two children; a widowed mother, two daughters, and a son; a young man, a boy, and a woman who had been separated from her husband. They were taken by one party several miles into Kansas, and there they remained for two or three weeks. A <