...out of his sight, as far south as she could be got." EXTRACTS FROM THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. " My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant. It is a common custom in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers...

...Captain Aaron Anthony. His father, says Douglass, "was a white man. He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage. The opinion was also whispered that my master [Captain Anthony] was my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing; the means...

...episodes in the Narrative foregrounded by the ideological notion of the palimpsest serves to illustrate. "My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant — before I knew her as my mother," asserts the narrator of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (p. 22). "It is a common custom,"...

...brutality and uncertainty: I have no accurate knowledge of my age. The opinion was . . . whispered about that my master was my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing. [Pp. 21-22] My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant. [P. 22] I was seldom whipped by...

...brutality and uncertainty: I have no accurate knowledge of my age. The opinion was . . . whispered about that my master was my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing. [Pp. 21-22] My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant. [P. 22] I was seldom whipped by...

...writes that "my master was my father": "My father was a white man. He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage. The opinion was...my master was my father; but of the correctness of that opinion, I know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld from me." Just ten years later, writing...

...Vassa's work, it would trace the eighteenth-century African's economic topography in all major details. "My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant -before I knew her as my mother," writes Douglass's narrator (p. 22). "It is a common custom," he continues, "in the part of Maryland...

...and unnamed fatherhood made known: "My father was a white man. He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage. The opinion was...of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing. . .(Douglass 21-22). Frederick Douglass by any other name would tell the same tale over and over again...

...seen any accurate record containing it. My father was a white man. He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage. The opinion was...nothing; the means of knowing was withheld from me. (Cunningham l989, pp. 47,48) Cunningham makes a great deal of the n on subject status of Douglass as...

...from parents, in particular a mother. Frederick Douglass recalls at the outset of his narrative that "my mother and I were separated when I was but an infant." 11 JWC Pennington opens his story by bemoaning the "evil of slavery" which left his parents unable...