Fill in the blank with a name from Douglass’ Narrative:  I w…

Fill in the blank with a name from Douglass’ Narrative:  I will venture to assert, that my friend Mr. ____________ (of whom I can say with a grateful heart, “I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in”) lived in a neater house; dined at a better table; took, paid for, and read, more newspapers; better understood the moral, religious, and political character of the nation,—than nine tenths of the slaveholders in Talbot county Maryland.

Identify the context and significance of this quotation from…

Identify the context and significance of this quotation from Douglass’ Narrative (4-6 good sentences):   This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins who, in return, would give me the more valuable bread of knowledge. . . . I sometimes would say to them, I wished I could be as free as they would be when they got to be men. “You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life!  Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?”  These words used to trouble them; they would express for me the liveliest sympathy, and console me with the hope that something would occur by which I might be free.