| PAGE | “They wuz Tracts and Bibles” | 7 | | | Uncle Nate Gowdey | 12 | | | “The Dumb Fools!” | 18 | | | A Black | 21 | | | “The old and feeble Ones” | 30 | | | “I sot demute” | 34 | | | “The dark Faces of these Apostles” | 40 | | | “With Philury’s Help” | 46 | | | Character Sketch | 51 | | | “When Ury had that Fight with Sam” | 56 | | | Melinda | 61 | | | Melinda has a Fit | 63 | | | “It wuz ‘Hold the Fort’ he belched out in” | 69 | | | “I ketched her by her Limb” | 73 | | | Peter and Melinda Ann | 77 | | | Deacon Henzy | 83 | | | “Josiah’s bald Head and Mine” | 86 | | | The Colored Children | 93 | | | Old Dr. Cork | 99 | | | The Slave Woman who poisoned the Child | 104 | | | Madeline | 110 | | | Colonel Seybert | 122 | | | “Low, brutal, envious Mind” | 128 | | | Defending his Home | 133 | | | The Leader | 138 | | | Felix and the Teacher | 143 | | | “The Old, the Feeble” | 149 | | | “His Overseer” | 153 | | | “A little tumble-down Cottage” | 155 | | | Cleopatra | 156 | | | Rosy | 161 | | | “He wuz glad to set down” | “THEY WUZ TRACTS AND BIBLES.”
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