Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?” These words used to trouble them; they would express for me the liveliest sympathy, and console me with the hope that something would occur by which I might be free.
In his autobiography, Douglass recalls challenging his white playmates with the fundamental question of his right to freedom, which troubled them and elicited sympathy.
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