The city was a refuge for escaping slaves along the underground railroad. ... Her brother, a traveling businessman, would bring back ugly tales of slavery in the Deep South, with which she was able to make the prototype of Simon Legree, basing him off a rough overseer whom Charles, her brother, had met on a Mississippi riverboat. ... While she was beginning the composition of Uncle Tom's Cabin her two brothers were preaching against slavery in their sermons and holding slave auctions to in order to give them their freedom. ... She wrote one other book on slavery, Dred, a Tale of the Grea...

• Word Count: 1085
• Approx Pages: 4

The fact of the matter is that history does not refute the claim, and generally recognizes that carpetbaggers (at least a small number of them) were involved in tales of corruption of pretty significant magnitude. ... It is the tale of Capt. ... A was forced to return to the city in absolute poverty. ... All in all there were over two thousand viewers. ...

• Word Count: 2362
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Were the tales of their backward ways all true? ... Helena and Arkansas Post were two ports on the Arkansas side of the river that had to be taken out before the great Prize of Vicksburg could be sought. ... The City falls that evening due to Davidson's actions at Fourche. ...

• Word Count: 1452
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The book records Thoreau's experiences in a hand-built cabin, where he spent two years in partial seclusion, at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. ... His "The Gold Bug" (1843) tells the tale of a search for buried treasure on a South Carolina island lV. ... In 1899 Robinson moved to New York City, where his volume Captain Craig and Other Poems (1902) attracted little interest. ...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School