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1  "I don't sell dead niggers," said Legree, doggedly.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI
2  You have a kind master, that won't refuse to sell you.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Master don't want to sell, and Missis she's always good.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
4  He offered an immense sum for her, but they would not sell her.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  "They want to sell the boy and the old woman together," said the man.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  It's better for me alone to go, than to break up the place and sell all.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
7  "I shall sell him, first chance I find," said Haley, lighting another cigar.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  Haley saw that I hesitated about selling this child, and he'll think I connived at it, to get him out of the way.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  Yes, I heard him say there was no choice between selling these two and selling all, the man was driving him so hard.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
10  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
11  I didn't mean to tell you this Emily; but, in plain words, there is no choice between selling these two and selling everything.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
12  "Kind families get in debt, and the laws of our country allow them to sell the child out of its mother's bosom to pay its master's debts," said George, bitterly.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  He told me that he always had meant to have me, from the first time he saw me; and that he had drawn Henry on, and got him in debt, on purpose to make him willing to sell me.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  As, for example, Mr. Haley: he thought first of Tom's length, and breadth, and height, and what he would sell for, if he was kept fat and in good case till he got him into market.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  You mean to take my wife to sell in New Orleans, and put my boy like a calf in a trader's pen, and send Jim's old mother to the brute that whipped and abused her before, because he couldn't abuse her son.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
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  Marie had held several consultations with her lawyer; after communicating with St. Clare's brother, it was determined to sell the place, and all the servants, except her own personal property, and these she intended to take with her, and go back to her father's plantation.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
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