In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, how is the white man a victim of slavery as well, according to Douglass?

Douglass
argues that slavery is such a
fundamentally evil institution that it corrupts all who are
associated with
it, including whites. The best example of this that he gives in the

Narrative is that of Sophia Auld, the wife of Hugh Auld, his master
during
much of his time in Baltimore. When he arrived at their home, Mrs.
Auld was tenderhearted,
possessed with the kind of morality that drove her to
treat Douglass in particular with
kindness. This is manifested in her
successful attempts to teach young Douglass to read. When
Mr. Auld discovers
that she has taught him to read, he is angry, and he tells her that literacy

will make a bad slave of the child. Sophia Auld had never had a slave under her
supervision
before, a fact that Douglass sees as the source of her kindness.
Later, though, Mrs. Auld begins
to change. She began to behave with as much
contempt for her slaves as her husband. Under the
influence of slavery,
Douglass says, "her tender heart had become stone." He concludes

that...

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