How did Frederick Douglas really score the “Frontier Douglas” prize?
What does this quote mean to the author?
By far the largest part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters to keep their slaves thus ignorant.
Is it possible to predict the age of a horse to go for riding, then to follow a slave by knowing the year exactly?
And this is the intent of the slave owners — to give the slaves the absolute minimum in the way of life.
