He only can understand the effect of this combat on my spirit, who has himself incurred something, hazarded something, in repelling the unjust and cruel aggressions of a tyrant.
Douglass describes the profound spiritual impact of his physical resistance against an overseer, emphasizing the unique understanding of those who have similarly fought tyranny.
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It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.