Narritive of Fredrick Douglass

Fredrick was late chosen to live with the Auld’s in Baltimore. Here he received his first pair of pants. Fredrick’s first duties was to run errands and take care of their youngest son Tommy. This was enjoyable to Fredrick and was much easier then plantation work. Sophia Auld was a religious woman and would read her bible aloud in the house. Fredrick asked Sophia if

I think Fredrick’s purpose of writing this narrative of his life was to show people everywhere what truly was going on in the life of an everyday slave in the south. He wanted to educate people and give a story that was real and not water down. To open the eyes of the people of the north to see the truth behind slavery so that they would put a stop to this hatred. I think he may of wanted to show that no matter what color you are, you still feel pain, sorrow, morning as well as happiness, love, compassion and he was no different than a white man. To show that all men are created in God’s image and all men are created equal. Also, not many black slaves had the ability to read and write and if he didn’t do it, who would. He was not going to sit back and continue to watch slaves suffer. His power came from his ability to debate and argue. He was a magnificent speaker and he was going to go everything in his power to help his brethren, his people in the south. This could also have been a tool to deal with his emotions. He may have need to write in order to coop with the thing that have happened to him; to release his anger and frustrations on paper.

In January 1834, Frederick was sent to work for Edward Covey, who was known for being a "slave breaker". Covey gave plenty for the slaves to eat but not enough time to it so many went hungry. Covey worked the slaves all day and had no sympathy for them. He would spy on them hoping for them to take a break when they weren’t suppose to so he would have an excuse to beat them. Fredrick would receive continue beatings from Covey that he started to feel broken. On one hot August afternoon his strength failed him and he collapsed in the field. Covey kicked and beat Frederick till he was covered in blood. Fredrick laid there until he was able to build enough energy to walk several miles to the Auld farm to tell Auld of Covey cruelty but Auld had little sympathy for him and sent him back to Covey the next morning. Later, Covey began tying him to a post in preparation for a whipping when something inside of Fredrick said this is enough. I am going to have to start fighting back if I ever want to see the day when I am free. So he did just that. Covey and Frederick fought for almost two hours until Covey finally gave up telling Frederick that his beating would have been less severe had he not resisted. "The truth was," said Frederick, "that he had not whipped me at all." He was lucky, legally; a slave could be killed for resisting his master. But Covey had a reputation to protect and did not want it known that he could not control a 16 year old boy.

During this time, Aaron Anthony died, and his property went to his two sons and his daughter, Lucretia Auld. Frederick remained a part of the Anthony estate and was sent back to the Lloyd plantation to be a part of the div

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