Frederick_Douglas

Frederick Douglas Slavery was perhaps one of the most appalling tragedies in the history of The United States of America. To tell the people of the terrible facts, runaway slaves wrote their accounts of slavery down on paper and published it for the nation to read. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs were just two of the many slaves who did this. Each of the slaves had different experiences with slavery, but they all had one thing in common: they tell of the abominable institution of slavery and how greatly it affected their lives. When Douglass was seven years old, he was sent to a new master and mistress, Hugh and Sophia Auld. Sophia was a very kind and affectionate woman, probably one of the nicest people Douglass had encountered in his early childhood life. Here's what Douglass had to say about his new mistress:'Her face was made of heavenly smiles and her voice of tranquil music (Douglas 41).' This caused Douglass to view the whites differently than before. His previous owners were cruel and corrupt who often whipped and beat their slaves in agony. But not Mrs. Auld; Douglass was astonished at her kind heart. She treated Douglass and other black slaves jacobs, douglass, flint, mistress, dr, one, slaves, slave, years, covey, children, life, free, became, work, treated, time, slavery, out, freedom, about, whites, white, very, told, times, sandy, room, people, new, mr, even, escape, seven, root, read