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1  I used to talk this matter of slavery over with them.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
4  Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
5  To those songs I trace my first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing character of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
6  It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
7  Those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery, and quicken my sympathies for my brethren in bonds.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
8  She was an apt woman; and a little experience soon demonstrated, to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incompatible with each other.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  She was by trade a weaver; and by constant application to her business, she had been in a good degree preserved from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  It was doubtless in consequence of a knowledge of this fact, that one great statesman of the south predicted the downfall of slavery by the inevitable laws of population.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
11  I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
12  That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  It was here that I witnessed the bloody transaction recorded in the first chapter; and as I received my first impressions of slavery on this plantation, I will give some description of it, and of slavery as it there existed.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
14  If the lineal descendants of Ham are alone to be scripturally enslaved, it is certain that slavery at the south must soon become unscriptural; for thousands are ushered into the world, annually, who, like myself, owe their existence to white fathers, and those fathers most frequently their own masters.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
15  It is possible, and even quite probable, that but for the mere circumstance of being removed from that plantation to Baltimore, I should have to-day, instead of being here seated by my own table, in the enjoyment of freedom and the happiness of home, writing this Narrative, been confined in the galling chains of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
16  From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
17  Whether this prophecy is ever fulfilled or not, it is nevertheless plain that a very different-looking class of people are springing up at the south, and are now held in slavery, from those originally brought to this country from Africa; and if their increase do no other good, it will do away the force of the argument, that God cursed Ham, and therefore American slavery is right.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
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