Answer:
The answer to Part A would be Ignorant, as the author goes on to state that his youthful understanding had struggled in vain. If someone is ignorant of something, yet they do not take the time to actually go research or learn about that thing, then they would be struggling in vain because they are selfish and not taking time to research what it is that the other person is saying that they do not understand.
For the answer to Part B, I would say that (Frederick) Douglass' new awareness of how owners maintain control over slaves allows him to better understand how to improve his situation. I say this because he seems to have an awakening/epiphany in the very last line: "I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty".
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"American peace society was the first nation to safeguard a peace organization that improves the society".
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- "American peace society" was formed in 1828 at the New York City.
- It was formed by merging many "state and local societies".
- "American Peace society" took many steps to improve the society.
- It organized many press conferences and regularly published a magazine with the title "Advocate of Peace" and it was always against wars between the nation-states.
- But it did not oppose the American Civil war because they thought the Union war is a "police action" against the criminals.
- This group is now based in Washington.