...gendered perspective is highlighted. In Chapter 1 of his narrative, Frederick Douglass recounts how "my mother and I were separated when I was but an infant," and he philosophizes that slave children were separated from their mothers in order to "hinder the...

...of who he might exactly be, except that he is a white man, as "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" (256). Actually, Frederick Douglass implies a knowledge, however painful and unpleasant, that Captain...

...name and his mother's body as absent: "My father was a white man. He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage. The opinion was...mother and I were separated when I was but an infant" (48; see Niemtzow 117—18 and McDowell 198). For Cunningham, Douglass represents "his enslavement...

...the first pages of his autobiography: My father was a white man. He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage. The opinion was...know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld from me.80 Charles Chesnutt published short stories and novels at the turn of the century, beginning his...

...identity crisis from the first chapter: "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." For Frederick Douglass as for many others, miscegenation resulted in identity anxiety and a determined...

...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...the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing." 4 Frederick Douglass by any other name would tell the same tale over and over again with frightening...

...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...father, but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing."4 Frederick Douglass by any other name would tell the same tale over and over again with frightening...

...Chapman, 1845,1846), 3. 7. "He was admitted to be such," Douglass continues, "by all I ever heard talk of my parentage. The opinion was also whispered that...the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing." Frederick Douglass, Autobiographies, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (New York: Library of America, 1994),...

...either my grandmother or grandfather. 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. (47-48) Douglass employs one of the primary thematic concerns of the slave narrative: the sexual exploitation...

...grandfather. My father was a white man. He was admitted to be such by all l ever heard speak of any parentage. The opinion was also whispered that my...my father, but of the correctness of this opinion, l know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld from me. My mother and l were separated when l was...