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The Liberty bell.

Maria Weston Chapman · 1839 · Scanned text · Free in the US

563,018 words · about 39 h 26 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD-US · Published 1839 (before 1884; date from the PleIAs English-PD record). The dataset curator states the whole collection is public domain in all regions (curator assertion, not independently verified); treated as public domain in the US.

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About this book

Author
Maria Weston Chapman
Language
English
Published
1839
Length
563,018 words · about 39 h 26 min
Sections
37 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (37)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Contents about 2 h 11 min
  3. II about 54 min
  4. III. I am an Abolitionist under 1 min
  5. V. I am an Abolitionist about 13 h 52 min
  6. VI about 1 min
  7. VII about 1 h 2 min
  8. VIII. T am black, I am black under 1 min
  9. IX. And from that hour our spirits grew under 1 min
  10. X under 1 min
  11. XI under 1 min
  12. XII. I look on the sky and the sea ! under 1 min
  13. XIII under 1 min
  14. XIV under 1 min
  15. XV. I am black, I am black ! under 1 min
  16. XVI about 1 min
  17. XVIII. He moaned and beat with his head and feet under 1 min
  18. XX. Even in that single glance I had under 1 min
  19. XXI. And he moaned and trembled from foot to under 1 min
  20. XXII under 1 min
  21. XXIII under 1 min
  22. XXIV. From, the white man's house and the black man's hut under 1 min
  23. XXV under 1 min
  24. XXVI under 1 min
  25. XXVIII. [ look on the sea and the sky! under 1 min
  26. XXIX under 1 min
  27. XXX about 15 h 42 min
  28. Prologue about 8 min
  29. Letter 1 about 4 min
  30. Letter II about 3 h 10 min
  31. Scene I about 6 min
  32. Scene II about 2 min
  33. Scene III about 9 min
  34. Scene IV. \_A swampy island in the midst of a dense forest^ about 3 min
  35. Scene V about 5 min
  36. Scene VI about 12 min
  37. Scene VIII about 1 h 37 min

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Front matter

THE LIBERTY BELL.

BY

FRIENDS OF FREEDOM.

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