Excerpt from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass
I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate
knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of
their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignoranti
do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time,
harvest-time, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time. A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to
me even during childhood... The nearest estimate I can give makes me now between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age.
I come to this, from hearing my master say, some time during 1835, I was about seventeen years old.
What point of view does the author use in the passage?
A)
First Person
B)
Second Person
Third Person Limited and First Person
D)
Third Person Omniscient and Third Person Limited