WHAT DOES THIS QUOTE MEANS TO YOU?
“we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheek and shades our eyes”.

IT WAS DURING SLAVERY?

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WHAT DOES THIS QUOTE MEANS TO YOU?
“we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheek and shades our eyes”. 

IT WAS DURING SLAVERY?

lifeisadangerousgame · Answer

To me, I think it means that slaves are wearing masks where they have to grin and lie about how they love their condition. In Frederick Douglass' narrative it talks about how you could get sold or flogged if you said that you hated how your master treated you

anonymous · Answer

where can i find the frederick douglass story where he talked about this at ??

lifeisadangerousgame · Answer

I'll pull it up one second please

anonymous · Answer

thanks

lifeisadangerousgame · Answer

http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Douglass/Narrative/Douglass_Narrative.pdf Please go to page 15, read that whole page and I think a little bit of page 16 too

anonymous · Answer

okay thanks

lifeisadangerousgame · Answer

Mhm :) Good luck