 | Frederick Douglass - 1982 - 164 sidor
...yet suffering the terrible gnawings of hunger,—in the midst of houses, yet having no home,—among fellow-men, yet feeling as if in the midst of wild...deep swallow up the helpless fish upon which they subsist,—I say, let him be placed in this most trying situation,—the situation in which I was placed,—then,... | |
 | C. James Trotman - 2002 - 294 sidor
...slaves. The starved slave is literally bled dry by a parasitic slavery. Slaves in passage find themselves "as if in the midst of wild beasts, whose greediness...up the trembling and half-famished fugitive is only equaled by that with which the monsters of the deep swallow up the helpless fish upon which they subsist"... | |
 | Gloria Levine, Princeton Review (Firm) - 2003 - 271 sidor
...go, or where to stay — perfectly helpless both as to the means of defense and means of escape — in the midst of plenty, yet suffering the terrible...hunger — in the midst of houses, yet having no home. ... I say, let him be placed in this most trying situation — the situation in which I was placed... | |
 | Andrew Warnes - 2004 - 232 sidor
...Douglass, the "bread of knowledge" and bread itself coalesce: just as he and other slaves are living "in the midst of plenty, yet suffering the terrible gnawings of hunger," so "their minds [are] . . . starved by their cruel masters." 2 Nor are the autobiographies of slaves... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 2003 - 140 sidor
...go, or where to stay.—perfectly helpless both as to the means of defence and means of escape,—in the midst of plenty, yet suffering the terrible gnawings...of hunger.— in the midst of houses, yet having no home.—among fellow-men, yet feeling as if in the midst of wild beasts, whose greediness to swallow... | |
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... among fellow-men, yet feeling as if in the midst of wild beasts, whose greediness to swallow up the trembling and halffamished fugitive is only equalled by that with which the monsters of the deep swallow up the helpless fish upon which they subsist... 