It's just what it is," he said gnomically. He bit his thumb (Smith, Kindle)
My heart say she mine. But I don't know she mine" (Walker, Kindle)
As his mother reminds him, "if you don't take that job the relief'll cut us off. We won't have any food" (Wright, Kindle)
Douglass describes what happened next. "He was immediately chained and handcuffed; and thus, without a moment's warning, he was snatched away, and forever sundered, from his family and friends, by a hand more unrelenting than death," (Douglass, Chapter 3)
Douglass describes what happened next. "He was immediately chained and handcuffed; and thus, without a moment's warning, he was snatched away, and forever sundered, from his family and friends, by a hand more unrelenting than death," (Douglass, Chapter 3)
I wuz a big boy goin' tuh school afore I had any understandin' as tuh whut she meant." (Fort, 1) To an extent, freedom could not be experienced until it was understood
His narrative also follows the accepted stages of the conversion narrative, which include humiliation, vocation, exaltation, and possession. For example, he opens his narrative with the quote, "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation" (Equiano 34)
Rowlandson never blames God for her plight, she merely thanks him for the comforts he is able to extend her. Rowlandson's attitude to reading the Bible is one of forbearance in the face of suffering as God directs her to certain passages to read to keep up her emotional strength while Douglass describes the religious songs of slaves as "a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains" (Douglass 14)
No matter how severe her trials, even when she thinks about her "poor children, who were scattered up and down among the wild beasts of the forest," when she "opened my Bible to read" and sees the words "they shall come again from the land of the enemy" (Jeremiah 31.16)" she views God as giving "a sweet cordial" to her that enables her to persevere (Rowlandson 4)