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Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.
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Brother
Differences
My Brother
None
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John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Brown
Insurrection
John Brown
Murder
Slave
Treason
John
Slaves
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As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.
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Autumn
Made
School
Sent
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THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
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Autumn
Died
Events
Mother
Significance
Brought
Event
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When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
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Effort
Print
Concluded
Construct
Third
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The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
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Brown
Ferry
John Brown
Sky
Thunder
Virginia
Attack
Came
Clap
John
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In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Abhorrence
Philadelphia
Quaker
Slavery
Towards
Looked
Shudder
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My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
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Daughter
Congress
Distinguished
Lawyer
Mother
Philadelphia
Years
Sergeant
John
Northern
Representative
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It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
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Wealth
Classes
Plain
Tutors
Upper
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Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them.
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Compelled
Neighborhood
Wealthy
Employ
Several
Slaves
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The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Colony
Names
Reign
Son
Virginia
Ancestors
Younger
Charles
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However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Men
Certain
Children
Masters
Southern
Master
However
Processes
Whereby
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I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Time
Country
First Time
Hundred
Residence
Soil
Years
Time People Country
Foot
Time Country People
Hundred Years
Seaman
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In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Time
Distinguished
First Time
Honor
Passing
Philadelphia
Return
Years
Annual
Washington
Visit
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In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Men
Differences
Individualism
Lost
Slave
Condition
Affairs
Difference
Practical
Recover
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In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Government
Patriotism
Federal Government
Formation
Secession
Virginia
Years
Federal
Hour
Stands
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Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Humanity
Moved
Affections
Angels
North
Philanthropists
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And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Knowledge
Blood
Brother
Father
Good Citizen
Higher
Honest
Inspiration
Son
Good Man Me
Boy
Citizen
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Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Conscience
Faithful
Mere
Mother
Ownership
Qualms
Qualms About
Carried
Concerning
Render
Requiring
Supplying
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Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Education
Elevation
Emancipation
Father
Manhood
Richmond
School
Suffrage
Uncompromising
Views
Gradual
Masses
Notions
Places
Public Schools
Schools
Slaves
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That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Abraham
Majority
Ought
Satisfied
Man Me People
Choice
Conceive
Lincoln
Monster
Settled
Thoroughly
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This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Business
Growing
Opinion
People
Relieved
Accursed
Business Me Better
Sooner
Business Better Me
Confirmed
Saw
Martha
Planted
Steadily
Thereafter
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