The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.
He could finally read, and it began to become hurtful to him
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I continued to do this until I could write a hand very similar to that of Master Thomas. Thus, after a long, tedious effort for years, I finally succeeded in learning how to write.
The thesis is, showing the life that he went through as well as the struggles in order to have the ability read and write.
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wishing myself dead
He had such a hard life, he would rather not be here then live.
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I do not remember what they all were; but I do know that mother, father, sister, teacher were among them —words that were to make the world blossom for me, "like Aaron's rod, with flowers." It would have been difficult to find a happier child than I was as I lay in my crib at the close of that eventful day and lived over the joys it had brought me
She showed the struggles she went through in life and how hard it was to overcome those struggles.
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Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
This showed a good example of how she was feeling and worded it so that other people could understand it.
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