It has called into exercise among the colored people, the hunted ones, a spirit of manly resistance well calculated to surround them with a bulwark of sympathy and respect hitherto unknown.
Douglass observes that the Fugitive Slave Act spurred a spirit of resistance among Black people, earning them new sympathy and respect.
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My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.