WILL UPVOTE CORRECT ANSWERS Read this passage from My Bondage and My Freedom. What tone does Douglass use in this passage?

When I was about thirteen years old, and had succeeded in learning to read, every increase of knowledge, especially respecting the FREE STATES, added something to the almost intolerable burden of the thought—I AM A SLAVE FOR LIFE. To my bondage I saw no end. It was a terrible reality, and I shall never be able to tell how sadly that thought chafed my young spirit.

Despairing

Sympathetic

Sentimental

Cheerful