 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...  Frederick Douglass, the Clarion Voicede John W. Blassingame - 1976 - 72 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Frederick Douglass - 1855 - 512 pages
...this conviction, like a word of living faith, strengthened me through the darkest trials of my lot. This good spirit was from God ; and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise. » . CHAPTER X. LIFE IN BALTIMORE. CITY ANNOYANCES — PLANTATION REGRET3 — MY MISTRESS, MISS 8OPHA... | |
 | Vincent Harding - 1981 - 476 pages
...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...cheer me through the gloom. This good spirit was from God."18 These were not idle words, nor written simply to appeal to his evangelical Protestant readers.... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 1982 - 164 pages
...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 God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise. Chapter VI. My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the door,—a woman... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 1994 - 1226 pages
...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 God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise. CHAPTER VI. MY new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the door, — a woman... | |
 | William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates - 2000 - 1066 pages
...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 God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise. CHAPTER VI. MY new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the door, — a woman... | |
 | Scott C. Williamson - 2002 - 200 pages
...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...was from God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise."27 As will be seen, Douglass had good reason to give thanks. BALTIMORE Douglass was not quite... | |
 | Dan P. McAdams - 2005 - 402 pages
...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...remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom.30 Frederick spends 7 years with the Aulds. During his time in Baltimore, he learns to read and... | |
 | Randall Norman Desoto - 2007 - 266 pages
...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 God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise. " A further source of hope came from a book he read entitled the Columbian Orator. In it, he discovered... | |
 | Garry Wills - 2007 - 646 pages
...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...was from God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise.6-' Douglass remembered fondly his early spiritual awakenings. Teaching the Sabbath school was... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 2003 - 140 pages
...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 God. and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise. CHAPTER VI My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the door,—a woman... | |
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