All 22 Uses of
persecution
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- From others than the master persecution also comes in such cases.†
Chpt 2
- She drank the cup of sin, and shame, and misery, whereof her persecuted race are compelled to drink.†
Chpt 5
- Sometimes my persecutor would ask me whether I would like to be sold.†
Chpt 6
- I answered that he had reasons of his own for screening me from punishment, and that the course he pursued made my mistress hate me and persecute me.†
Chpt 6
- I have told you that Dr. Flint's persecutions and his wife's jealousy had given rise to some gossip in the neighborhood.†
Chpt 10
- I knelt before her, and told her the things that had poisoned my life; how long I had been persecuted; that I saw no way of escape; and in an hour of extremity I had become desperate.†
Chpt 10
- He, whose persecutions had been the cause of my sin!
Chpt 11 *persecutions = unfair treatment
- The better class of the community exerted their influence to save the innocent, persecuted people; and in several instances they succeeded, by keeping them shut up in jail till the excitement abated.†
Chpt 12
- I supposed that religion had a purifying effect on the character of men; but the worst persecutions I endured from him were after he was a communicant.†
Chpt 13
- Continued Persecutions.†
Chpt 15
- All the doctor's former persecutions were renewed.†
Chpt 15
- During this time, my friends had laid many plans for my escape, but the extreme vigilance of my persecutors made it impossible to carry them into effect.†
Chpt 20
- But I was in no situation to choose, and I gratefully accepted the best that my poor, persecuted friends could do for me.†
Chpt 20
- I asked why the curse of slavery was permitted to exist, and why I had been so persecuted and wronged from youth upward.†
Chpt 23
- I have mentioned my great-aunt, who was a slave in Dr. Flint's family, and who had been my refuge during the shameful persecutions I suffered from him.†
Chpt 28
- She said if I persevered I might, perhaps, gain the freedom of my children; and even if I perished in doing it, that was better than to leave them to groan under the same persecutions that had blighted my own life.†
Chpt 28
- Aggie little dreamed that my grandmother knew where her daughter was concealed, and that the stooping form of her old neighbor was bending under a similar burden of anxiety and fear; but these dangerous secrets deepened the sympathy between the two old persecuted mothers.†
Chpt 29
- They thanked God that I had got away from my persecutors and was safe on Long Island.†
Chpt 32
- Every colored person, and every friend of their persecuted race, kept their eyes wide open.†
Chpt 40
- May the God of the helpless reward her for her sympathy with my persecuted people!†
Chpt 40
- I remembered how he had defrauded my grandmother of the hard earnings she had loaned; how he had tried to cheat her out of the freedom her mistress had promised her, and how he had persecuted her children; and I thought to myself that she was a better Christian than I was, if she could entirely forgive him.†
Chpt 41
- In a few days one came from Mrs. Bruce, informing me that my new master was still searching for me, and that she intended to put an end to this persecution by buying my freedom.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
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(persecution) very bad and unfair treatment of others -- often because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs