 | Russ Castronovo - 2001 - 372 sidor
...abandonment perversely echo the isolation felt by slave narrators. As Frederick Douglass recalled in 1845, "The motto which I adopted when I started from slavery was this — 'Trust no man!'" 46 In The Fugitive Blacksmith (1849), former slave James Pennington remembers his escape with ambivalence:... | |
 | Howard Bryant - 2002 - 308 sidor
...in wait for the panting fugitive, as the ferocious beasts of the forest lie in wait for their prey. The motto which I adopted when I started from slavery...every white man an enemy, and in almost every colored man cause for distrust. It was a most painful situation; and, to understand it, one must needs experience... | |
 | Armiger Jagoe - 2007 - 148 sidor
...insecurity and loneliness. The motto which l adopted when l started from slavery was this: "Trust no man!" l saw in every white man an enemy, and in almost every colored man cause for distrust. At the end of her autobiography, Lillian Hellman, noted playwright, gives an... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 2003 - 140 sidor
...lie in wait for their prey. The motto which I adopted when I started from slavery was this—"Trust no man! " I saw in every white man an enemy, and in almost every colored man cause for distrust. It was a most painful situation; and, to understand it. one must needs experience... | |
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I was afraid to speak to any one for fear of speaking to the wrong one, and thereby falling into the hands of money-loving kidnappers, whose business it was to lie in wait for the panting fugitive, as the ferocious beasts of the forest lie in wait for... 
