Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Frederick Douglass No. 2. One of the barbarous laws of the slave system was that of hiring out members of families who were slaves, this occurring in the Douglass family. The only recollections he had of his mother were those hasty visits she made to him at night. (1939)
Mark's Pages
August 26, 2002:
Am I doing the same to her: trying to force her into a role she doesn't want?
"Friend of Mark," let's say? Perhaps.
Painful that she doesn't want to know me.
Her attention skipping over my words like a butterfly sampling flowers: there's
something colorful there, but it's not interesting.
