POWER DYNAMICS
Colonel Lloyd maintained control through this policy regarding slaves who complained about their treatment.
What is selling them to a Georgia Trader?
Douglass states that children were separated from their mothers at this young age.
As babies/before 1st birthday
Slaves would do this to supplement their meager food allowance.
What is fishing for oysters?
Douglass described Mrs. Auld's transformation using this metaphor about her heart.
What is "the tender heart became stone"?
Douglass's mother traveled this exact distance to visit him at night.
What is 12 miles?
Slaves who worked on this type of vessel were "esteemed very highly by the other slaves."
What is a sloop? (The Sally Lloyd)
This relationship was rumored between Douglass and his first slave owner.
What is father and son?
Colonel Lloyd's slaves developed this important maxim (saying/phrase/idiom) regarding talking about their masters.
What is "a still tongue makes a wise head"?
After learning to read, Douglass sometimes wished for this condition instead of awareness.
What is ignorance/stupidity/being a beast?
According to Douglass, Baltimore slave owner's were afraid of treating their slaves poorly in this specific way.
What is not providing enough food?
Douglass observed that slaves would argue about this absurd comparison between their masters.
What is whose master was richer or smarter?
Douglass observed that this often happened to slaves who were the children of their white masters.
What is they suffered greater hardships/faced jealousy from the mistress/were sold away to make the mistress happy?
Young Douglass used this item to survive the cold nights without a proper bed.
Douglass described freedom appearing to him this way after learning to read.
What is "in every sound"/"seen in everything"?
According to Douglass, this key difference existed between city slaves and plantation slaves.
What is being treated better/being 'almost a freedman'?
According to Douglass, a slaveowner who granted this rare privilege was considered "kind."
What is permission to be absent from sunrise work?
When his mother died, Douglass described feeling this way about her passing with this direct quote.
What is like "the death of a stranger"?
When Douglass encountered two Irishmen at the wharf, he responded to their advice with this tactic.
What is pretending not to understand/be interested (for fear of betrayal)?
Douglass compared the singing of slaves to this other situation that would involve singing.
What is "a man cast away upon a desolate island"?
When traveling from the plantation to Baltimore, Douglass passed through this city that impressed him with its size.
What is Annapolis?
When Colonel Lloyd's horse keepers were punished, Douglass noted they faced this impossible situation.
What is being whipped whether deserving or not/never knowing when they were safe?
According to Douglass, this legal principle allowed slavery to perpetuate itself through generations.
What is "children following the condition of their mothers"?
When faced with extreme cold without proper clothing, Douglass's feet developed this condition that he graphically described. (Be specific!)
What is cracks/gashes from frost so deep "a pen might be laid in them"?
Douglass used this powerful metaphor to describe his first witnessing of a slave being whipped.
What is "the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery"?
Colonel Lloyd's elaborate garden attracted visitors from these three specific cities. (provide 2 out of 3)
What are Baltimore, Easton, and Annapolis?