Read this passage from douglass’s autobiography. what is he saying about the woman who owned him?
my mistress, who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance with the advice and direction of her husband, not only ceased to instruct, but had set her face against my being instructed by anyone else. it is due, however, to my mistress to say of her, that she did not adopt this course of treatment immediately. she at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness. it was at least necessary for her to have some training in the exercise of irresponsible power, to make her equal to the task of treating me as though i were a brute.
a.
she had to develop the cruelty to treat frederick like an animal because she was a naturally kind person.
b.
she started teaching young frederick to read and write because he husband asked her to.
c.
she is unwilling to teach frederick but is willing for him to learn from someone else.
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