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“I had been cheated,” writes Frederick Douglass in My Bondage and My Freedom. Why does Douglass feel he has been cheated?

A. His owners have fed and clothed him in exchange for his liberty.
B.The books he has read have tricked him into believing in happy endings.
C.His friends have forced him to give them his bread in exchange for lessons.

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His owners have fed and clothed him in exchange for his liberty.

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“I had been cheated,” writes Frederick Douglass in My Bondage and My Freedom. Douglass felt that he has been cheated because his owners have fed and clothed him in exchange for his liberty. Option A is correct.

My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855.

Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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