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1  I was quite a child, but I well remember it.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
2  When quite a child, she fell into the fire, and burned herself horribly.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  She had already given birth to one child, which proved her to be just what he wanted.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
4  Ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  Very soon after my return to Baltimore, my mistress, Lucretia, died, leaving her husband and one child, Amanda; and in a very short time after her death, Master Andrew died.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  For what this separation is done, I do not know, unless it be to hinder the development of the child's affection toward its mother, and to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother for the child.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
7  Frequently, before the child has reached its twelfth month, its mother is taken from it, and hired out on some farm a considerable distance off, and the child is placed under the care of an old woman, too old for field labor.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I