1 My mother was named Harriet Bailey.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER I 2 I do not recollect of ever seeing my mother by the light of day.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER I 3 My mother was dead, my grandmother lived far off, so that I seldom saw her.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER V 4 My mother was of a darker complexion than either my grandmother or grandfather.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER I 5 The allowance of the slave children was given to their mothers, or the old women having the care of them.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER II 6 It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER I 7 I never saw my mother, to know her as such, more than four or five times in my life; and each of these times was very short in duration, and at night.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER I 8 She took a chair by me, washed the blood from my face, and, with a mother's tenderness, bound up my head, covering the wounded eye with a lean piece of fresh beef.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 9 I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at the time; and this, too, in the midst of her crying children, pleading for their mother's release.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER II 10 I had two sisters and one brother, that lived in the same house with me; but the early separation of us from our mother had well nigh blotted the fact of our relationship from our memories.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER V 11 We were all now tied; and just as we were to leave for Easton jail, Betsy Freeland, mother of William Freeland, came to the door with her hands full of biscuits, and divided them between Henry and John.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 12 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 DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER I 13 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 DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER I