"I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do."
— Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Date
1845
Metaphor
"I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do."
Metaphor in Context
This they would sing, as a chorus, to words which to many would seem unmeaning jargon, but which, nevertheless, were full of meaning to themselves. I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.
(p. 14)
(p. 14)
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Provenance
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Citation
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963).
Date of Entry
11/01/2011
