My Bondage and My Freedom - Frederick Douglass - Libros -  - 9798687225670 - 29 de enero de 2021
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My Bondage and My Freedom

Book Excerpt: ...ssion. It must not be overlooked, in this glance at his education, that [8]Mr. Douglass lacked one aid to which so many men of mark have been deeply indebted--he had neither a mother's care, nor a mother's culture, save that which slavery grudgingly meted out to him. Bitter nurse! may not even her features relax with human feeling, when she gazes at such offspring! How susceptible he was to the kindly influences of mother-culture, may be gathered from his own words, on page 57: "It has been a life-long standing grief to me, that I know so little of my mother, and that I was so early separated from her. The counsels of her love must have been beneficial to me. The side view of her face is imaged on my memory, and I take few steps in life, without feeling her presence; but the image is mute, and I have no striking words of hers treasured up."From the depths of chattel slavery in Maryland, our author escaped into the caste-slavery of the north, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Here he found oppressi...

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Publicado 29 de enero de 2021
ISBN13 9798687225670
Páginas 294
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 16 mm   ·   394 g
Lengua Inglés  

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