I realized in reading this mans story that he was a gifted individual and I pondered over where his strength came from? ... Frederick Douglass was an extremely gifted man, but with no mother or father to guide him, what motivated this man to accomplish his goal? ... In Frederick Douglass's words, "He then told her to cross her hands, he tied them with a strong rope, and led her to a stool under a large hook in the joist, put in for the purpose. He made her get upon the stool, and tied her hands to he hook" (Douglass 259). ... They were talking about him and then unreasonably putting th...

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a gifted poet, author, and lecturer. ... Saw you those hands so sadly clasped-- The bowed and feeble head-- The shuddering of that fragile form-- That look of grief and dread? ... He is not hers, for cruel hands May rudely tear apart The only wreath of household love That binds her breaking heart. ... But marry one who's good and kind, And free from all pretence; Who, if without a gifted mind, At least has common sense. ...

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His father had told him that those who decide to travel abroad in search of discovery were of two kinds, those "Men of desperate Fortunes on one Hand, or of aspiring superior Fortunes on the other"4, and felt that Robinson was too good for the former, but insufficient for the latter. ... Crusoe could also be said to have shown an unconscious cruelty towards Xury, his young Moor companion, when he agrees to sell him to the Portuguese Captain, in effect handing over his liberty11. ... One of these had been gifted to him by his friend, the Portuguese captain, and he then purchased anoth...

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