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1  a young colored man in Kentucky.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
2  A very humane jurist once said, The worst use you can put a man to is to hang him.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
3  "Well, he's a man that I transacted some business with, last time I was at Natchez," said Mr. Shelby.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Tom had stood, during this speech, with his hands raised, and his eyes dilated, like a man in a dream.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
5  While this scene was passing in the cabin of the man, one quite otherwise passed in the halls of the master.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  He fetched me a good sum, too, for I bought him cheap of a man that was 'bliged to sell out; so I realized six hundred on him.'
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
7  She had been married to a bright and talented young mulatto man, who was a slave on a neighboring estate, and bore the name of George Harris.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
8  This young man had been hired out by his master to work in a bagging factory, where his adroitness and ingenuity caused him to be considered the first hand in the place.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
9  Mr. Shelby hastily drew the bills of sale towards him, and signed them, like a man that hurries over some disagreeable business, and then pushed them over with the money.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse, commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
11  The brown of her complexion gave way on the cheek to a perceptible flush, which deepened as she saw the gaze of the strange man fixed upon her in bold and undisguised admiration.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
12  Nevertheless, as this young man was in the eye of the law not a man, but a thing, all these superior qualifications were subject to the control of a vulgar, narrow-minded, tyrannical master.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
13  He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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14  He was a large, broad-chested, powerfully-made man, of a full glossy black, and a face whose truly African features were characterized by an expression of grave and steady good sense, united with much kindliness and benevolence.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  Mr. Shelby was a fair average kind of man, good-natured and kindly, and disposed to easy indulgence of those around him, and there had never been a lack of anything which might contribute to the physical comfort of the negroes on his estate.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
16  I heard her plead and beg for us; but he told her 't was no use; that he was in this man's debt, and that this man had got the power over him; and that if he didn't pay him off clear, it would end in his having to sell the place and all the people, and move off.'
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
17  Instantly the flexible limbs of the child assumed the appearance of deformity and distortion, as, with his back humped up, and his master's stick in his hand, he hobbled about the room, his childish face drawn into a doleful pucker, and spitting from right to left, in imitation of an old man.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
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