Characters
Frederick Douglass' parents
Who are a white master father and a black slave mother?
Douglass' loss of innocence at witnessing the evil of slavery
What is the whipping of his Aunt Hester by Captain Anthony?
Douglass wonders why the white children know this but the slave children don't
What is their birthday?
Is said to be as rich as Job
Who is Colonel Lloyd?
"It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery"
What is witnessing the whipping his aunt when he was very young?
Owned Great House Farm and other outlying plantations, as rich as Job, owned 1,000 slaves
Who is Colonel Lloyd?
This happened when a slave told the truth of being mistreated to Colonel Lloyd
Destroys the bonds between slave mothers and their children
What is separating the mothers from their children as infants?
These tones are "a prayer to God for deliverance from chains?
What are slave songs?
The sleeping conditions of all slaves on Colonel Lloyd's plantation
What is sleeping on a cold, damp floor?
Who is Mr. Gore?
These events are not treated as crimes by the courts or the community
What are the murders of slaves?
The way the children on the plantation are fed mush like pigs
What is by using a trough ?
Douglass sees this as "a special intervention of divine Providence my favor"
What is being selected to go to Baltimore?
The result of a slave oversleeping and not being ready to work in the field
What is a whipping?
Frederick is sent to Baltimore to live with these people
Who are Hugh and Sophia Auld?
The reason Douglass received trousers for the first time
What is he was being sent to Baltimore?
It makes a slave unmanageable and unhappy according to Hugh Auld
What is learning to read?
The meaning of the allusion that "God cursed Ham"
What was the Biblical justification used to support slavery?
The way Colonel Lloyd protects his garden from the slaves
What is tarring the fence?
She beats the head, neck, and shoulders of these young slaves with a whip
Who is Mrs. Hamilton?
Douglass learns the key to "the white man's power to enslave the black man"
What is Hugh Auld stopping Sophia from teaching him to read?
In addition to being beaten often, these slaves are kept half-starved and sometimes end up eating garbage
Who are Henrietta and Mary, Mrs. Hamilton's slaves?
He said Douglass was "in soul manifestly 'created but a little lower than the angels'"
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Although Douglass suffered from hunger as a child, he says he suffered more from ________
What is the cold that cracked his feet?