As a boy, Frederick Douglass witnesses a scene that mortifies him and brings him face to face for the first time with the horrors of slavery. What is it ?

A. Watching his dad beat his mother

B. Watching a slave get beaten to death

C. Watching his aunt get whipped

D. Seeing his mother die

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