Read the passage.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass Although slavery was a delicate subject, and very cautiously talked about among grownup people in Maryland, I frequently talked about it—and that very freely—with the white boys. I would, sometimes, say to them, . . . “I wish I could be free, as you will be when you get to be men.” . . . Words like these, I observed, always troubled them.
What does this passage reveal about society’s influences at the time?

Slave and white children were discouraged from talking to one another.

Slavery was a taboo subject, to be avoided in polite conversation.

Children were not supposed to express their opinions until they became adults.