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Life as a Slave
Chapter 7
Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery
Young Douglass begins reasoning his way toward the true cause of slavery — deciding it is ‘not color, but crime’ — while enduring chronic hunger under the plantation's starvation allowance.
Douglass's childhood theological reasoning about slaveryRejecting the idea that God ordained slaveryThe plantation's food allowance and chronic hungerEarly conviction that he would someday be free