English, 06.07.2019 17:30 rina62

In the first paragraph of "narrative of the life of fredrick douglass", douglass writes, "by far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs,” what does douglass mean in this statement? then he states, “and it is the wish of most masters to keep their slaves thus ignorant." why would most slave masters want this?

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