the blacks to know their family was not allowing them to know their last name. I think that this was another way that the whites figured they could have more control over the blacks. Douglass seems to feel the same about this, saying that the whites wouldn't take parental responsibilities over them or even say or mention having sex with a female slave. He is right in saying this because whites were again just trying to show the blacks, who the "master" was and that they had no say and could do nothing about it. These things show us that whites were cruel in the South. I say this because that is where most of the
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