 | Frederick Douglass - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 1226
...deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with the bitterest anguish. Everv tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer...The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit, and filled me with ineffable sadness. I have frequently found myself in tears while hearing... | |
 | Sterling Stuckey - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...slaves was constant is a powerful indictment of the slaveholder's deafness to the humanity of the slave. "Every tone was a testimony against slavery and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains." He found that, on hearing those "wild notes," his spirit was depressed and he was filled with "ineffable... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...from the Narrative, but it is not marked as such. Douglass underscores the explicitly cited passage: I have sometimes thought, that the mere hearing of...these lines, my tears are falling. To those songs I trace my first glimmering conceptions of the dehumanizing character of slavery. I can never get rid... | |
 | Crispin Sartwell - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 184
...over with the bitterest anguish. Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for a deliverance from chains. The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirits and filled me with ineffable sadness. 13 The blues embodies into rhythm and melody the experience of a people.... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 868
...the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845, he wrote in chapter 2: Every tone [of the songs of the slaves] was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains." M. JacoB Ducfti (1738-1798), was the Anglican clergyman, who, at the request of the Continental Congress,... | |
 | Saidiya V. Hartman - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with...The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit, and filled me with ineffable sadness. I have frequently found myself in tears while hearing... | |
 | Roger Parker - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 172
...then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with...slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. [...] I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak... | |
 | Roger Parker - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 212
...then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with...slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. ... I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak... | |
 | Margo McLoone - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 32
...at his home in Washington, DC Words from Frederick Douglass "Every tone (of the songs of the slaves) was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains." From his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845. "No man can put a chain... | |
 | May Joseph, Jennifer Fink - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 274
...then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with...The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit, and filled me with ineffable sadness. I have frequently found myself in tears while hearing... | |
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Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. 
