 | William T. Alexander - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 662
...good, but probably a great deal of harm, making him disconsolate and unhappy. If you teach him how to read he'll want to know how to write ; and this...confessed that he very clearly comprehended the nature and requirements of the relation of Master and slave. His discourse was the first decidedly anti-slavery... | |
 | 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 1008
...no good, but a great deal of harm, making him disconsolate and un^appy. If you teach him how to d, he'll want to know how to write ; and this accomplished, hell be running away with himself.' His coloured hearer drank in tie heartless words, with an application little dreamt of by the ntterer.... | |
 | Cathy N. Davidson Professor of English Duke University - 1987 - عدد الصفحات: 338
...unsafe, 'for,' said he ... 'learning will spoil the best nigger in the world. ... If you teach him how to read, he'll want to know how to write, and this accomplished, he'll be running away with himself " (pp. 78-79). 9. Jackson Turner Main, The Social Structure of Revolutionary America (Princeton: Princeton... | |
 | Susan Willis - 1987 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...will be no keeping him" (p. 49); "it would forever unfit him to be a slave"; "if you teach him how to read, he'll want to know how to write; and this accomplished, he'll be running away with himself" (Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass [New York: New American Library, 1968],... | |
 | Stuart Ewen, Elizabeth Ewen - عدد الصفحات: 276
...bible, there will be no keeping him"; "it would forever unfit him for the duties of a slave"; . . . "if you learn him now to read, he'll want to know...oracular exposition of the true philosophy of training human chattel; and it must be confessed that he very clearly comprehended the nature and the requirements... | |
 | Steven Gilbar - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 148
...do him no good, but a great deal of harm, making him disconsolate and unhappy. If you teach him how to read, he'll want to know how to write, and this...was the tenor of Master Hugh's oracular exposition; and it must be confessed that he very clearly comprehended the nature and the requirements of the relation... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 1226
...do him no good, but a great deal of harm, making him disconsolate and unhappy. If you teach him how to read, he'll want to know how to write, and this...was the tenor of Master Hugh's oracular exposition; and it must be confessed that he very clearly comprehended the nature and the requirements of the relation... | |
 | William S. McFeely - 1991 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...but probably, a great deal of harm — making him disconsolate and unhappy.' 'If you learn him how to read, he'll want to know how to write; and, this...accomplished, he'll be running away with himself.' ' Hugh Auld knew what he was talking about. Looking back, Douglass described this discourse as "oracular";... | |
 | Avery Gordon - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...of Frederick Douglass, said, 'If you give a nigger an inch, he'll take an ell. If you teach him how to read, he'll want to know how to write. And this accomplished, he'll be running away with himself" (1976: 14). 12. Reminiscences, 557. 13. See Gilroy (1993: 66-68) for a discussion of Redmond's lecture... | |
 | Ishmael Reed - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 197
...of Frederick Douglass, said, "If you give a nigger an inch, he'll take an ell. If you teach him how to read, he'll want to know how to write. And this...accomplished, he'll be running away with himself." Master Hugh could have taught Harriet Beecher Stowe a thing or two. People don't know when the Swilles... | |
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As to himself, learning will do him no good, but a great deal of harm, making him disconsolate and unhappy. If you teach him how to read, hell want to know how to write, and this accomplished, he'll be running away with himself. 
