Read this passage from My Bondage and My Freedom. What quality is Douglass showing in this passage?

The smiles of my mistress could not remove the deep sorrow that dwelt in my young bosom. Indeed, these, in time, came only to deepen my sorrow. She had changed; and the reader will see that I had changed, too. We were both victims to the same overshadowing evil-she, as mistress, I, as slave. I will not censure her harshly; she cannot censure me, for she knows I speak but the truth, and have acted in my opposition to slavery, just as she herself would have acted, in a reverse of circumstances.

Anger

Forgiveness

Bitterness

Happiness

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Camren Cowan

17 September, 17:46

Read this passage from My Bondage and My Freedom. What quality is Douglass showing in this passage?

The smiles of my mistress could not remove the deep sorrow that dwelt in my young bosom. Indeed, these, in time, came only to deepen my sorrow. She had changed; and the reader will see that I had changed, too. We were both victims to the same overshadowing evil-she, as mistress, I, as slave. I will not censure her harshly; she cannot censure me, for she knows I speak but the truth, and have acted in my opposition to slavery, just as she herself would have acted, in a reverse of circumstances.

Anger

Forgiveness

Bitterness

Happiness

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Darian Blair · Answer 1

I think it's forgiveness, because he isn't insulting his former mistress, he's not raging at her in this passage. Instead, he seems to be saying they're both victims of the corrupt institution of slavery.