It would make him discontented and unhappy.” These words sank deep into my heart, stirred up sentiments within that lay slumbering, and called into existence an entirely new train of thought.
Douglass reflects on how the idea of learning to read awakened a new understanding in him about his situation as a slave.
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Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.