http://www.blackarts-literature.org African American Electronic Text Center Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:41:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This Indenture, made this 19th day of August, in the year Eighteen hundred & Sixty five between 1st Lieut. Ab S Dial A.A.A. Gen'l J. B. 7th Dist. Va. of the one part, and John F. Hawkins of the County of Bedford of the other part, Witnesseth, That the said Lieut Ab S Dial ... http://www.blackarts-literature.org/anonymous/contract-for-indenture-of-susan-a-girl-of-five-years-august-19-1865.html I WAS born about the year 1794, on a large plantation, thirty odd miles above Richmond, Virginia, and was descended, in the third generation, from imported Africans, and, probably, from some of the darkest of the native race; for my parents as well as myself were pretty black -- more ... http://www.blackarts-literature.org/anonymous/a-slaves-story.html 1 A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. http://www.blackarts-literature.org/angelou-maya/maya-angelous-on-the-pulse-of-morning.html SUMMARY: Cyrus Alexander tells John H. McCue of his financial woes and updates McCue on friends and family, including the engagement of their sister, Elizabeth, to a Colonel Bell, as well as offering comment on McCue's estrangement with his father. Alexander also asks McCue if he knows of a "cheap hand" ... http://www.blackarts-literature.org/alexander-cyrus/cyrus-alexander-to-john-h-mccue-december-18-1858.html [Gorgeous clouds, tinted with sunlight. Eva, robed in white, is discovered on the back of a milk-white dove, with expanded wings, as if just soaring upward. Her hands are extended in benediction over St. Clare and Uncle Tom who are kneeling and gazing up to her. Expressive music. Slow curtain.] END http://www.blackarts-literature.org/aiken-george/part-act-vi/scene-vii.html [Rough Chamber. Enter Legree, followed by Sambo.] LEGREE: Go and send Cassy to me. SAMBO: Yes, mas'r. [(Exit.)] LEGREE: Curse the woman! she's got a temper worse than the devil; I shall do her an injury one of these days, if she isn't careful. [(Re-enter Sambo, frightened.)] What's the matter with you, you black scoundrel? SAMBO: S'help me, mas'r, ... http://www.blackarts-literature.org/aiken-george/part-act-vi/scene-v-3.html [Street. Enter Marks meeting Cute, who enters dressed in an old faded uniform] MARKS: By the land, stranger, but it strikes me that I've seen you somewhere before. CUTE: By chowder! do you know now, that's just what I was a going to say? MARKS: Isn't your name Cute? CUTE: You're right, I calculate. Yours is Marks, I reckon. MARKS: Just ... http://www.blackarts-literature.org/aiken-george/part-act-vi/scene-iv-6.html [A Rough Chamber. Enter Legree. Sits.] LEGREE: Plague on that Sambo, to kick up this yer row between Tom and the new hands. [(Cassy steals on and stands behind him.)] The fellow won't be fit to work for a week now, right in the press of the season. CASSY: Yes, just like you. LEGREE: Hah! you she-devil! you've ... http://www.blackarts-literature.org/aiken-george/part-act-vi/scene-iii-6.html [Street in New Orleans. Enter George Shelby.] GEORGE: At length my mission of mercy is nearly finished, I have reached my journey's end. I have now but to find the house of Mr. St. Clare, re-purchase old Uncle Tom, and convey him back to his wife and children, in old Kentucky. Some one approaches; he ... http://www.blackarts-literature.org/aiken-george/part-act-vi/scene-ii-6.html [Dark landscape. An old, roofless shed. Tom is discovered in shed, lying on some old cotton bagging. Cassy kneels by his side, holding a cup to his lips.] CASSY: Drink all ye want. I knew how it would be. It isn't the first time I've been out in the night, carrying water to such ... http://www.blackarts-literature.org/aiken-george/part-act-vi/scene-i-6.html