I have observed this in my experience of slavery,—that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.
In his autobiography, Douglass reflects on the paradoxical effect of improved conditions under slavery, which only intensified his longing for freedom.
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