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.Read the passage.From My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass: "Although slavery was a delicate subject, and very cautiously talked about among grownup people in Maryland, I frequently talked about it—and that very freely—with the white boys. I would, sometimes, say to them, . . . 'I wish I could be free, as you will be when you get to be men.' . . . Words like these, I observed, always troubled them."What does this passage reveal about society's influences at the time?

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