 | Frederick Douglass - 1855 - 492 pages
...^bey, for I was now reading and thinking. New v, iws of the subject were presented to my mind. It P did not entirely satisfy me to narrate wrongs ; I felt like denouncing them. I could not always curb my moral indignation for the perpetrators of slaveholding villainy, long enough... | |
 | Harry B. Shaw - 1990 - 196 pages
...always obey, for I was now reading and thinking. New views of the subject were presented to my mind. It did not entirely satisfy me to narrate wrongs; I felt like denouncing them. (361-2) Douglass's need to display a rounded humanity was countered by his companions' need to persuade... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 1994 - 1226 pages
...always obey, for I was now reading and thinking. New views of the subject were presented to my mind. It did not entirely satisfy me to narrate wrongs; I felt like denouncing them. I could not always curb my moral indignation for the perpetrators of slavehold1ng villainy, long enough... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - 1995 - 418 pages
...language he uses to describe his displeasure with his Garrisonian associates in My Bondage and My Freedom: "It did not entirely satisfy me to narrate wrongs; I felt like denouncing them" (MB, 220). Narrating, for Douglass, is a kind of ritualized repetition, and the 1845 Narrative in this... | |
 | Herbert J. Storing - 1995 - 490 pages
...philosophy." Douglass's mind was always working; he could not talk about slavery without thinking about it. "It did not entirely satisfy me to narrate wrongs — I felt like denouncing them."1 Inevitably doubts were expressed whether a man who reasoned so well and in such fine and eloquent... | |
 | Rafia Zafar - 1997 - 270 pages
...realized that to simply tell his wrongs and sufferings, as his white colleagues urged him, was not enough. "It did not entirely satisfy me to narrate wrongs — I felt like denouncing them."52 Not only interpretation was necessary, but self-mythologizing as well. To gain the undivided... | |
 | Keith Louis Walker - 1999 - 316 pages
...Tradit1on "I was 'a graduate' of the peculiar institution . . . with my diploma written on my back.' It did not entirely satisfy me to narrate wrongs; I felt like denouncing them. I could not always curb my moral indignation for the perpetrators of slaveholding villainy long enough... | |
 | Dorothy C. Broaddus - 1999 - 164 pages
...publicly to only tell the story of his slavery and escape. In My Bondage and My Freedom, Douglass writes, "It did not entirely satisfy me to narrate wrongs; I felt like denouncing them" (qtd. in Sekora 610). Like Stowe, Douglass was permitted to operate in the narrative mode but not the... | |
 | Grant Hermans Cornwell, Eve Walsh Stoddard - 2001 - 372 pages
...speeches. I stepped upon the platform. I could not always obey, for I was now reading and thinking. ... It did not entirely satisfy me to narrate wrongs; I felt like denouncing them. ... I was growing, and needed room. ... It was said to me, "Better have a little of the plantation... | |
 | Dan McKanan - 2002 - 312 pages
...white handlers pressured him to stick to the facts and let them articulate the abolitionist theory. But "it did not entirely satisfy me to narrate wrongs; I felt like denouncing them. ... 1 must speak just the word that seemed to me to be the word to be spoken by me."77 Douglass, and... | |
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It did not entirely satisfy me to narrate wrongs ; I felt like denouncing them. I could not always curb my moral indignation for the perpetrators of slaveholding villainy, long enough for a circumstantial statement of the facts which I felt almost everybody... 
