I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. It is impossible to conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent... Frederick Douglass, the Clarion Voice - Page 11de John W. Blassingame - 1976 - 72 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Frederick Douglass - 1855 - 512 pages
...suppose them happy because they sing. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows, rather than the joys, of his heart ; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears. Such is the conatitntion of the human mind, that, when pressed to extremes, it often avails itself... | |
| Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 448 pages
...conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved...alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence... | |
| Margaret Fuller - 1895 - 458 pages
...conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart ; and he is relieved...alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence... | |
| Frederick Douglass - 1982 - 164 pages
...conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved...alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence... | |
| Sterling Stuckey - 1994 - 314 pages
...nature of their experience. Douglass thought, in this context, that the songs of the slave represented "the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them,...only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears." 39 He thought artistic expression the chief means by which slaves responded to the horror of their... | |
| Frederick Douglass - 1994 - 1226 pages
...suppose them happy because they sing. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows, rather than the joys, of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears. Such is the constitution of the human mind, that, when pressed to extremes, it often avails itself... | |
| Cecelia Conway - 1995 - 428 pages
...significance for blacks. In his 1845 autobiography, Frederick Douglass observes: "The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved...experience. I have often sung to drown my sorrow. '39 Continuity of the Banjo's Social Context for Blacks in the Twentieth Century Certain uses of the... | |
| Ronald Segal - 1996 - 498 pages
...slave was a sign of contentment: "Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved...them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears . . . The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as... | |
| Grey Gundaker - 1998 - 356 pages
...described these "wild" songs as reverberating through the woods. He states that "the songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is often relieved by its tears." WEB Du Bois asserts "that these songs are the articulate message of the... | |
| Jon Cruz - 1999 - 300 pages
...greater mistake" than to associate happiness with the production of music. As Douglass said of himself: "I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom...joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery."'8 Regardless of Douglass's accounts of what he thought were the predominant conditions under... | |
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