 if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master. As to himself, it could do him no good, but a great...  Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Page 461846Full view - About this book
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Enslaved persons - 1853 - 276 pages
...world. Now," said he, "if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave....make him discontented and unhappy."! These words sank deep into my heart, stirred up ! , sentiments within that lay slumbering, and called! into existence... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Antislavery movements - 1853 - 534 pages
...teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would for ever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable,...make him discontented and unhappy." These words sank deep into my heart, stirred up sentiments within that lay slumbering, and called into existence an... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Antislavery movements - 1853 - 282 pages
...that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unlit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable,...make him discontented and unhappy." These words sank deep into my heart, stirred up •entiments within that lay slumbering, and called into existence an... | |
 | Slavery - 1853 - 380 pages
...Douglass) how to read, there will he no keeping him ; it will for ever unfit him to be a slave ; he will at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master. As to himself, it can do him no good, but a great deal of harm. It will make him discontented and unhappy. ' ' This was... | |
 | John Lawrence - Slave trade - 1854 - 230 pages
...the world. Now, said he, if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself,) how to read there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave....unmanageable, and of no value to his master. As to himself it would do him no good, but a great deal of harm. It would make him discontented a:;d unhappy.'" Is not... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - Biography & Autobiography - 1982 - 164 pages
...world. Now," said he, "if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave....make him discontented and unhappy." These words sank deep into my heart, stirred up sentiments within that lay slumbering, and called into existence an... | |
 | James L. Machor - History - 1993 - 322 pages
...to be correct. Hugh Auld forbad his wife to teach Douglass to read, claiming that "there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave....harm. It would make him discontented and unhappy" (Narrative 78). All of these predictions come true as Douglass overhears Auld's warning to his wife... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 1226 pages
...world. Now," said he, "if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave....make him discontented and unhappy." These words sank deep into my heart, stirred up sentiments within that lay slumbering, and called into existence an... | |
 | Geneviève Fabre - American literature - 1993 - 216 pages
...spoil the best nigger in the world. Now... if you teach that nigger... how to read, thére would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave....at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master'2. Lorsque Frederick Douglass entend ces mots, prononcés à son sujet par son maître, il a,... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia, Thomas McLaughlin - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 498 pages
...world. Now," said he, "if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave....make him discontented and unhappy." These words sank deep into my heart, stirred up sentiments within that lay slumbering, and called into existence an... | |
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