Frederick Douglass’s life as a slave was a long and tough one. He had many things happened to him in his upbringing that made who he grew up to be. Frederick Baily was born a slave in February 1818 on Holmes Hill Farm, near the town of Easton on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The farm was part of an estate owned by Aaron Anthony, who also managed the plantations of Edward Lloyd V, one of the wealthiest men in Maryland. Frederick’s mother worked in the cornfields around Holmes Hill. His father was white but he Frederick did know

Slave owners talked about how slaves were better off with them because they claimed that the slaves were fed and clothed. This was far from the truth, as they were not treated well in Frederick Douglass’s life. He received the short end of the stick many times in life. At times he was treated like a part of a family but then he was again cast out as a slave. He got a taste of family life but at the end of the day he was always reminded that he was a slave with all the work he had done and how he was sometimes treated. The life of Frederick Douglass was what seemed to be a typical life of a slave, sometimes he caught a break with his charm that most slave children did not have, but yet he was still treated badly as a slave and he worked very hard to find his way out of it forever and put an end to it using his own life as a resources to keep pushing on and do what he thought was right in his heart.

much about him besides that. He spent his childhood playing in the woods near his grandmother's cabin. He did not think of himself as a slave during these years. Only gradually did Frederick learn about a person his grandmother would refer to as Old Master and she spo

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