Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,

The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day,

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume

After the Civil war, he continued publishing and editing newspapers, served as a United States marshal, a recorder of deeds in Washington, D.C., and consulgeneral to the Republic of Haiti. He also criticized the Reconstruction policy, and supported women’s rights, giving his last speech at a women’s rights rally.

Frederick Douglass which was published by Garrison’s American Anti-Slavery Society in Boston.

He then defended himself in a two-hour combat with Covey

was born enslaved him because he was the black son of a black slave,

but her mistress just then calling, she was obliged to hasten away.

“I’d like to have been able to kick the fellow down the steps,”

“It’s strange, now, but I never could beat this into people’s heads.

The subject appeared to interest the gentleman deeply; for while Mr. Shelby was thoughtfully peeling an orange,

“Why, I’ve got a friend that’s going into this yer branch of the business—wants to buy up handsome boys to raise for the market.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discovery that I had not lived.

The world has been instructed by its kings, who have so magnetized the eyes of nations.

Similarly, woman’s fiction—sometimes called sentimental or domestic fiction

Every time a new territory was proposed or a territory petitioned for statehood, battles between the legislators of free states and legislators of slave states would erupt.

The population of America was also expanding during the nineteenth century. As J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur’s titular farmer James observes, Americans had been a “promiscuous breed” even before America was an independent nation.

It is true, he was rarely heard to speak, but smoked his pipe incessantly.

who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound

The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached

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The fetter’d chieftain’s burning tear,— The parted lover’s mute despair,— The childless mother’s pang severe,— The orphan’s misery are there

No longer shall thou dread the iron chain, Which wanton Tyranny with lawless hand Had made, and with it meant t’ enslave the land.

The Heavens have chang’d to sorrow my delight. How oft with disappointment have I met, When I on fading things my hopes have set?

A Prise so vast as is unknown, Yet, by his Gift, is made thine own. Ther’s wealth enough, I need no more; Farewell my Pelf, farewell my Store. The world no longer let me Love, My hope and Treasure lyes Above.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov’d by wife, then thee, If ever wife was happy in a man,

literally depended upon those of her male relatives