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Frederick Douglas


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             Frederick Douglass had seen many different masters from which they ranged from totally evil to fairly nice. He recalls the terrifying beating that his Aunt Hester had taken for disobeying the master that put her to death. His first of master's family had consisted of two sons and a daughter named Andrew, Richard, and Lucretia, whom was married to Captain Thomas Auld. They all lived on the plantation belonging to Colonel Edward Lloyd, whom had so many slaves that he didn't know them all and they didn't all know him. One incident that Douglass speaks of describes the Colonel riding along the road when he ran into a colored man and said: .
             "Well boy, whom do you belong to?" "To Colonel Lloyd," replied the slave. "Well, does the colonel treat you well?" "No, sir," was the ready reply. "What does he work you to hard?" "Yes, sir." "Well don't he give you enough to eat?" "Yes, sir, he gives me enough such as it."1.
             These remarks had seen that slave sold to a Georgia trader and snatched away from his family in chains and handcuffs. Because of incidents like this one slave's had always found something good to say about their master even if it was a lie because they never knew with whom they were speaking to. Slaves would think that the better their master sounded the better it made them. They would argue with slaves of other owners, for example Colonel Lloyd's slaves argued he was the richest while slaves of Mr. Jepson argued that he was the smartest (p. 44). Douglass remembers slaves singing songs one going "I am going away to the Great House Farm! O, yea! O, yea! O!"2 in which he said the slaves song songs as a "testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains."3 .
             Another master of whom Frederick Douglass speaks of is that of Mr. Hopkins. Hopkins had arrived after Colonel Lloyd but only last a short period of time because he felt he couldn't live up to the name Lloyd had had.


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