We find in these last few chapters Douglass moves from master to master. First losing his fire and spark and almost going to a point where he wanted to kill his master and then commit suicide. Douglass is going through more hardship because he lacked as much hardship growing up in Baltimore. He also starts to assume those masters who are more religious tend to treat their slaves worse then those who are less. Douglass also mentions that with all these different things occurring there is a build up for an escape. His first escape fails when he is betrayed and then he is later beaten again my white appretantices at the ship yard because he is taking good work away from them. The story then continues into chapter 11 where Douglass finally escapes to NewYork. After working for a while Douglass starts to feel more comfortable in the community he changes his last name and the beginning of his anti-slavery campaign begins. He starts to suscribe to the Liberator and speaks for the first time about anti-slavery. He also states that he was never against religion but instead he didn't agree by the way masters used to imply there actions were legitimate. .
The most interesting chapter to me was the end of chapter 10 and the beginning of chapter 11. This is a time period where Douglass is reaching out, he is feeling the hardships of his life and facing the realities of it. He is deciding to either be free or die trying. It starts of by him leaving Baltimore, his first and one of his most painful was "Upon this he rushed at me with the fierceness of a tiger, tore off my clothes, and lashed me till he had worn out his switches, cutting me so savagely as to leave the marks.
visible for a long time after." The aggression and the pain caused here was just one of the painfull experiences that would continue to ignite the fire within Douglass. He later felt the pains that said these words "Mr.
"My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant- (2). ... "She was with me in the night never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her smoothing presence, her tender and watchful care"(2). ... This is why I Agree with Frederick Douglass when he argued for that in his book Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass An American Slave. ...
