My soul an't yours, Mas'r! You haven't bought it, -ye can't buy it! It's been bought and paid for, by one that is able to keep it.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Topic

The soul

Speaker

Uncle Tom

Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Source

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Language

English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Abolitionist Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly." The National Era, 5 June 1851 - 1 Apr. 1852.

Current Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin, edited by Elizabeth Ammons. W. W. Norton & Company, 2017, ch. 33.

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It is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

Frederick Douglass

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

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Topic
American slavery American Civil War
Speaker
Frederick Douglass
Source
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1852 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Douglass, Frederick. Speech to the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. 5 July 1852, Corinthian Hall, Rochester, NY, USA.

Current Citation

Douglass, Frederick. "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? An Address." Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings, edited by David W. Blight. Library of America, 2022.