Injurious To Mrs. Auld In Douglass's Narrative Slavery

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Shalondra McBryde American Lit 209 In Douglass’s Narrative, slavery “proved as injurious to Mrs. Auld as it did to Douglass.. Slavery had made both Douglass and Mrs. Auld’s heart hard. He had stated that she had a kind and warm heart but slavery had turned it to stone and in a situation where she would have helped a person in need she instead turn them away. She stated to teach him to read but after her husband told her the “right” place of a slave she got to the point that if Douglass was caught reading she would be angry and snatch what he was reading away form him. From the same conversation that his master and mistress had about not teaching Douglass to read, was when Douglass had felt the hurt and change of his mistress and this
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