Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
What did Douglass mean when he used the phrase "Mental Darkness"?
What did he mean ?
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What did he mean ?
Douglass starts a little school for slaves. He notices that the slaves hunger for education. They take great risks by coming to school because their minds had been starved: they had been in a "mental darkness."
Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness.