Colonel Lloyd had from three to four hundred slaves on his home plantation, and many more on neighboring farms belonging to him. Frederick happened to see him whip one of the slaves of the farm one day, and this scared him and shocked him that humans could be so evil and malicious toward other humans (17-22).Ĭaptain Anthony was what we will call an overseer of the overseers, on a plantation for a Colonel Edward Lloyd. Plummer, who would often beat slaves and whip them till they bled. Under Frederick's first master Captain Anthony (a middle class farmer) there was a cruel overseer named Mr. He was separated from his mother when he was but an infant, and not many years later she died when Frederick was about seven years old. His father was a white man (some believe that it was his original master, but about this Frederick is uncertain). So the author of this paper will not be using dates until later). This specific book also contains some of the various works of Frederick, which the author of this paper will not go over, due to the fact that they do not tell us about his life, only his literary skills which are quite impressive.įrederick was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbout county, Maryland (Unfortunately Frederick did not know specifically when he was born, nor was he able to give any dates until a certain point in his narrative, although he had heard one of his masters say that he was about seventeen, in 1835. We will see that after getting sent to Baltimore, Frederick began to have ideas about freedom, after overhearing some cruel words from his master, and decided to escape to the Northern states where he might be free, like all men should be.

In this book we read about the early life of an American Slave Frederick Douglass, it is in fact his autobiography.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Frederick douglass narrative book