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Sophia Auld was Douglass’s mistress in childhood. Although Douglass was technically her slave, he remembered her as being kind to him, going so far as to educate him. In his speech, Douglass recounts that Sophia, like him, was also horrified at the sound of slaves being driven in the middle of the night, and he found comfort in her empathy.
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2. The Internal Slave Trade
...in the middle of the night. He would take comfort in the fact that his mistress also found the sound of the brutality terrible. Douglass emphasizes that he still sees such...
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