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1997: Question 2

1997: Question 2. Excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Par. 1: Sentence 1. If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was during the first six months of my stay with Mr. Covey.

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1997: Question 2

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  1. 1997: Question 2 Excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

  2. Par. 1: Sentence 1 • If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was during the first six months of my stay with Mr. Covey.

  3. Par. 1: Sentence 2 • We were worked in all weathers.

  4. Par. 1: Sentence 3 • It was never too hot or too cold; it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow, too hard for us to work in the field.

  5. Par. 1: Sentence 4 • Work, work, work, was scarcely more the order of the day than of the night.

  6. Par. 1: Sentence 5 • The longest days were too short for him, and the shortest nights too long for him.

  7. Par. 1: Sentence 6 • I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went there, but a few months of this discipline tamed me.

  8. Par. 1: Sentence 7 • Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me.

  9. Par. 1: Sentence 8 • I was broken in body, soul, and spirit.

  10. Par. 1: Sentence 9, Part 1 • My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died:

  11. Par. 1: Sentence 9, Part 2 • the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute! . . .

  12. Par. 2: Sentence 1 • Our house stood within a few rods of the Chesapeake Bay, whose broad bosom was ever white with sails from every quarter of the habitable globe.

  13. Par. 2: Sentence 2 • Those beautiful vessels, robed in purest white, so delightful to the eye of freemen, were to me so many shrouded ghosts, to terrify and torment me with thoughts of my wretched condition.

  14. Par. 2: Sentence 3 • I have often, in the deep stillness of a summer’s Sabbath, stood all alone upon the lofty banks of that noble day, and traced, with saddened heart and tearful eye, the countless number of sails moving off to the mighty ocean.

  15. Par. 2: Sentence 4 • The sight of these always affected me powerfully.

  16. Par. 2: Sentence 5 • My thoughts would compel utterance and there, with no audience but the Almighty, I would pour out my soul’s complaint, in my rude way, with an apostrophe to the moving multitude of ships:--

  17. Par. 3 Sen. 1 “You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave!

  18. Par. 3 Sen. 2 You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip!

  19. Par. 3 Sen. 3 You are freedom’s swift-winged angels, that fly round the world; I am confined in bands of iron!

  20. Par. 3 Sen. 4 O that I were free!

  21. Par. 3 Sen. 5 O, that I were on one of your gallant decks, and under your protecting wing!

  22. Par. 3 Sen.6 Alas! betwixt me and you, the turbid waters roll.

  23. Par. 3 Sen. 7 Go on, go on.

  24. Par. 3 Sen. 8 O that I could also go!

  25. Par. 3 Sen. 9 Could I but swim!

  26. Par. 3 Sen. 10 If I could fly!

  27. Par. 3 Sen. 11 O, why was I born a man, of whom to make a brute!

  28. Par. 3 Sen. 12 The glad ship is gone; she hides in the dim distance.

  29. Par. 3 Sen. 13 I am left in the hottest hell of unending slavery.

  30. Par. 3 Sen. 14 O God, save me!

  31. Par. 3 Sen. 15 God, deliver me!

  32. Par. 3 Sen. 16 Let me be free!

  33. Par. 3 Sen. 17 Is there any God?

  34. Par. 3 Sen. 18 Why am I a slave?

  35. Par. 3 Sen. 19 I will run away. I will not stand it

  36. Par. 3 Sen. 20 Get caught, or get clear.

  37. Par. 3 Sen. 21 I’ll try it.

  38. Par. 3 Sen. 22 I had as well die with ague as the fever.

  39. Par. 3 Sen. 23 I have only one life to lose.

  40. Par. 3 Sen. 24 I had as well be killed running as die standing.

  41. Par. 3 Sen. 25 Only think of it one hundred miles straight north, and I am free!

  42. Par. 3 Sen. 26 Try it Yes!

  43. Par. 3 Sen. 27 God helping me, I will.

  44. Par. 3 Sen. 28 It cannot be that I shall live and die a slave.

  45. Par. 3 Sen. 29 I will take to the water.

  46. Par. 3 Sen. 30 This very bay shall bear me into freedom.

  47. Par. 3 Sen. 30 The steamboats steered in a north-east course from North Point.

  48. Par. 3 Sen. 31 I will do the same; and when I get to the head of the bay, I will turn my boat adrift, and walk straight through Delaware intoPennsylvania.

  49. Par. 3 Sen. 32 When I get there, I shall not be required to have a pass; I can travel without being disturbed.

  50. Par. 3 Sen. 33 Let but the first opportunity offer, and come what will, I am off.

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