Slave Narrative
In this narrative, Douglass tells his feelings towards the relationships between slaves and slaveholders. He starts by explaining how troubled he felt as a child by the fact that a God who is supposedly "good" created black people to be slaves, and white people to be slaveholders. He mentions some of the discoveries he made during his time as a slave such as that many people tend to think of their masters as better than others or that killing slaves that act in self-defense is not a crime.
Questions:
How did religious adult figures in Douglass's life explain this unfair reasoning to him?
What caused him to be so interested in the relationship between slaves and their masters?
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