As I read and contemplated the subject, behold! that very discontentment which Master Hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read had already come, to torment and sting my soul to unutterable anguish.
Douglass describes the profound emotional distress that accompanied his literacy, fulfilling his master's prediction that knowledge would bring discontent.
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None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.