On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
I learned when I grew up, that my master—and this is the case with masters generally—allowed no questions to be put to him, by which a slave might learn his age.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I learned when I grew up, that my master—and this is the case with masters generally—allowed no questions to be put to…”
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Douglass reveals the deliberate policy of slave masters to prevent enslaved individuals from learning their own age, reinforcing their control and dehumanization.
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