Trained from the cradle up, to think and feel that their masters are superior, and invested with a sort of sacredness, there are few who can outgrow or rise above the control which that sentiment exercises.
Douglass analyzes how the institution of slavery indoctrinates enslaved people from childhood to accept the perceived superiority and authority of their masters.
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