Read the passage. i would, sometimes, say to them, while seated on a curbstone or a cellar door, “i wish i could be free, as you will be when you get to be men.” “you will be free, you know, as soon as you are twenty-one, and can go where you like, but i am a slave for life. have i not as good a right to be free as you have? ” in the passage from my bondage and my freedom, frederick douglass remembers conversations with his white playmates. how did the boys respond to such questions?

a they defended slavery and slaveholders.
b they agreed with douglass on the condemnation of slavery.
c they shared their parents’ justifications of slavery.
d they agreed that douglass was different from other slaves.