Harriet Tubman — Vocabulary
Ann Petry
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He asked for some kind of agreement in regard to the return of the hundreds of fugitive slaves living in Canada.†52 more

His swiftly moving figure was in strange contrast to the languorous slow motion of his hands just a few minutes before.†1 more

Things were infinitely worse because of Denmark and all his plots and plans for freedom.†3 more

In Boston, on October 21, 1835, William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of The Liberator, was rescued from a mob of some two thousand well-dressed, eminently respectable men who were intent on hanging him.†1 more

The mumbling old voice evoked the clank of chains, the horror of thirst, the black smell of death, below deck in the hold of a slave ship.†1 more

It had taken her years to save five dollars, she had hoarded pennies to accumulate such a sum.†3 more

She had forgotten that she had always been imbued with the idea of freedom, magic in the very sound of the word, and he had always been indifferent to it, perhaps because he possessed it himself.†1 more

Then came harvest, one of the best times of the year, when the big full moon lit the fields and the slaves worked late, singing songs that had a lilt in them, songs that were like a thanksgiving for the abundance of the crop.†1 more

In Boston, on January r, 1831, William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of his antislavery newspaper, The Liberator.†2 more

Harriet was, however, neither old nor infirm.†2 more

At first Harriet worked in his house, doing the housework that she despised.†2 more

She had very little money to make a down payment, so there was a rather large mortgage.†2 more

He sat with his head on his hand, and nobody could rouse him, or make him take any interest in anything.†2 more

She told them about Frederick Douglass, the most famous of the escaped slaves, of his eloquence, of his magnificent appearance.†1 more

The subject of slavery was introduced because some of the counties, alarmed by the Nat Turner insurrection, had petitioned for the gradual emancipation of the slaves or for abolition of slavery.12 more

Fishing and hunting were an integral part of it, just as it had been part of the life of the Indians, who had practically disappeared from the Eastern Shore by 1750.†2 more

It was in this office, upstairs in Lebanon Seminary, that she learned the extent of the network of stops on the Underground Railroad.†2 more

Like many other former Abolitionists, she became interested in the movement for women's suffrage.†1 more

She gave the impression of being a short, muscular, indomitable woman who could never be defeated.†1 more

He would, however, rely on the ingenuity of the Vigilance Committee to take care of the matter after the merchandise reached Baltimore.†1 more