Nevertheless, I sometimes got full meals and kind words from sympathizing old slaves, who knew my sufferings, and received the comforting assurance that I should be a man some day.
Douglass reflects on moments of solace and encouragement he received from older enslaved people, who offered him hope for a better future.
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The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.