In this excerpt from paragraph 2, what does douglass mean when he describes his mistress as an apt woman? my mistress was, as i have said, a kind and tender-hearted woman; and in the simplicity of her soul she commenced, when i first went to live with her, to treat me as she supposed one human being ought to treat another. in entering upon the duties of a slaveholder, she did not seem to perceive that i sustained to her the relation of a mere chattel, and that for her to treat me as a human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so. slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. admirable mischievous intelligent deceptive

I would say intelligent

Explanation: The author says that his mistress a kind and hearted woman, then he says that in knowing the duties of a slaveholder , she didn't treat him as property but as a human being and concludes that Slavery proved as insulting to her as it did to me. It means that she realized that treating him as chattel will be insulting to him and to herself. Realizing that is a symbol of acumen or intelligence.

What Douglass means when he describes his mistress as an apt woman is that she was admirable.

Explanation:

In this story "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass we see how slavery changed the personality and soul of this woman who was first described as a sweet loving and extremely human person, here when she had all of these qualities she was considered to be admirable.

the complete subject is

lorna

thinking about things and referring to books instead of acting on superstition and gossip.