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Frederick Douglass

  • Teddyhas quoted2 years ago
    I shall never forget his first speech at the convention—the extraordinary emotion it excited in my own mind—the powerful impression it created upon a crowded auditory, completely taken by surprise—the applause which followed from the beginning to the end of his felicitous remarks. I think I never hated slavery so intensely as at that moment; certainly, my perception of the enormous outrage which is inflicted by it, on the godlike nature of its victims,
  • Teddyhas quoted2 years ago
    There stood one, in physical proportion and stature commanding and exact—in intellect richly endowed
  • Teddyhas quoted2 years ago
    This Narrative contains many affecting incidents
  • Teddyhas quoted2 years ago
    In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with FREDERICK DOUGLASS, the writer of the following Narrative.
  • Teddyhas quoted2 years ago
    A beloved friend from New Bedford prevailed on Mr. DOUGLASS to address the convention: He came forward to the platform with a hesitancy and embarrassment, necessarily the attendants of a sensitive mind in such a novel position.
  • Teddyhas quoted2 years ago
    Mr. DOUGLASS has very properly chosen to write his own Narrative, in his own style, and according to the best of his ability, rather than to employ some one else. It is, therefore, entirely his own production
  • Teddyhas quoted2 years ago
    Again, we have known you long, and can put the most entire confidence in your truth, candor, and sincerity. Every one who has heard you speak has felt, and, I am confident, every one who reads your book will feel, persuaded that you give them a fair specimen of the whole truth. No one-sided portrait,—no wholesale complaints,—but strict justice done, whenever individual kindliness has neutralized, for a moment, the deadly system with which it was strangely allied. You have been with us, too, some years, and can fairly compare the twilight of rights, which your race enjoy at the North, with that "noon of night" under which they labor south of Mason and Dixon's line. Tell us whether, after all, the half-free colored man of Massachusetts is worse off than the pampered slave of the rice swamps!
  • Teddyhas quoted2 years ago
    I am glad the time has come when the "lions write history."
  • Teddyhas quoted2 years ago
    I got hold of a book entitled "The Columbian Orator."
  • Teddyhas quoted2 years ago
    I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it.
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