填空题. A. denied B. custom C. frequently D. affection E. deprived F. propagate G. ignorant H. awareness I. considerable J. concerning K. lack L. whispered M. artificial N. ultimately O. authentic I was born in Tuckahoe, Talbot Country, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any 1 record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves knows as little of their age as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus 2 . I do not remember having ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. A 3 of information about my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. The white children could tell their ages. I could not tell why I ought to be 4 of the same privilege. I was not allowed to make any inquires of my master 5 it. He considered all such inquires on the part of a slave improper and impertinent. My mother was named Harriet Bailey. She was the daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey, both colored, and quite dark. My mother was of a darker complexion than either my grandmother or grandfather. My father was a white man. The opinion was also 6 that my master was my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing. My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant—before I knew her as my mother. It is a common 7 , in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age. Before the child has reached its twelfth month, 8 , its mother is taken from it, and hired out on some farm a 9 distance off, and the child is placed under the care of an older woman, too old for field labor. For what this separation is done, I do not know, unless it was to hinder the development of the child's 10 towards its mother.