Douglass gave bread to white children for lessons. ... Ancestors of blacks didn't have these privileges to attempt to be successful so they would have something to give to their children. ... Douglass's journey taught American's never to give up. ...
She told him that if he scrubbed himself clean, she would give him a pair of pants to wear to Baltimore. ... He paid for his reading lessons with pieces of bread. ... "Many colored men, for no other crime than that of giving aid to a fugitive slave, have. . . perished in prison" (Douglass 1881). ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin Throughout the colonial period and after American Revolution, most Americans accepted slavery as a normal and inevitable aspect of their affairs. It became more and more confined, as a working institution, to the southern states. In the North West the pressure for free land was greatest, especially during the downswing of cycles when pressure on the farming community was acute. The South was generally opposed to free land, fearing that it would upset the balance between the number of free and slave states. Slavery in South America was closely connected to rac...
