Question

“I had been cheated,” writes Frederick Douglass in My Bondage and My Freedom. Why does Douglass feel he has been cheated?

Answer 1

His owners have fed and clothed him in exchange for his liberty.

Answer 2

My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical representation of the period when he was in slavery by Frederick Douglass. He accounts all the experiences and the misleading he has gone through that period. In he said that "I had been cheated" because he did not get his freedom and made to believe that the slave owners are doing this as actions ordered by god.