![]() He saw the injustice and the cruelty and was forever scarred. As an adult he writes that he realizes that this was one of the first times he really became aware that he was enslaved and what the horrors of that position entailed. He sees his own aunt being beaten mercilessly and wonders if he will be next. On the one hand, this is a very personal recollection of a young boy's experience. This passage exhibits both of these themes. 16ĭouglass's autobiography is both a personal coming-of-age tale as well as an indictment of the horrors of slavery. I wish I could commit to paper the feelings with which I beheld it." Douglass, p. It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. ![]() It was the first of a long series of such outrages, of which I was doomed to be a witness and a participant. ![]() I never shall forget it whilst I remember any thing. I was quite a child, but I well remember it. "I remember the first time I ever witnessed this horrible exhibition. ![]()
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