Question

1. douglass writes that a source of unhappiness for him in childhood was being deprived of the right to a visit his mother. b know his own birthdate. c own a horse. d live with his mother. e ask questions about his father.

Explanation:

Frederick Douglass explicitly states in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass that being denied knowledge of his own birthdate was a specific source of childhood unhappiness, as slaveholders intentionally withheld this information to dehumanize enslaved people.

Answer:

B. know his own birthdate.