I would, sometimes, say to them, while seated on a curbstone or a cellar door, “ I wish I could be free, as you will be when you get to be men,” “you will be free, you know, as soon as you are twenty-one, and can go where you like, but I am a slave for life. Have I not as good a right to be free as you have?” In the passage from my Bondage and my freedom, Frederick Douglass remembers conversations with his white playmates. How did the boys respond to such question?
