Read these lines: "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 ignorant. I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday." According to the quoted lines, why does the narrator not know his own age?

1. The quoted lines open by saying he has no accurate knowledge of his age because he never saw any authentic record containing it. 2. They add that most masters wished to keep their slaves ignorant of their ages, so no record was offered to him. 3. A missing record is exactly what option A states. 4. Nothing in the quoted lines mentions two conflicting years, a lapse of memory, or a refusal by his mother, so the other three add facts that are not there. _Source: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), public domain_