The unkindness of Aunt Katy, the hunger and cold I suffered, and the terrible reports of wrongs and outrages which came to my ear, together with what I almost daily witnessed, led me to wish I had never been born.
Douglass describes the overwhelming despair he felt as a child due to the constant suffering and injustices he experienced and witnessed under slavery.
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