"I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege" ( Chapter 1, 1). Douglass emphasizes many times about being deprived of the privilege that white children were able to have. Having no accurate knowledge of his age, Douglass had said himself he was unhappy. For me, I do not believe that his greatest concern was his age, but that fact because he was a slave his would remain ignorant of the matter. "A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood" (Chapter 1, 1). It was a part of him that was taken away before he had the chance to receive it. "Before the child has reached its twelfth month, its mother is taken from it" ( Chapter 1, 3). Another privilege; happiness of his taken
