Who Done it?
A former slave who then wrote his own autobiography.
Frederick Douglass
Slave children followed the condition of their ______.
Mother
Published The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper. Was responsible for introducing Douglass into the abolitionist movement.
William Lloyd Garrison
Douglass provides very specific details of people and locations which he would only be able to know if he had actually been present.
Ethos
"Mr. Severe was rightly named: he was a cruel man" (17)
Dramatic Irony
Owner of so great a number of slaves, he did not always recognize them. He was also very particular about his horses.
Colonel Lloyd
Slaves sang most when feeling this emotion.
Unhappy
Novelist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin to move readers toward the abolition of slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Douglass refers to the emotional nature of slave songs and how deeply they affected him personally (ch. 2).
Pathos
Mr. Gore is described as a particularly cruel man (ch. 4).
Dramatic Irony
Known for being incredibly cruel. He shot Demby for refusing to come out of the stream after being whipped.
Mr. Gore
Colonel Lloyd was more concerned for the treatment of these than of his slaves.
Horses
A woman who helped many slaves escape via the underground railroad.
Harriet Tubman
"If the lineal descendants of Ham are alone to be scripturally enslaved, it is certain that slavery at the south must soon become unscriptural; for thousands are ushered into the world, annually, who...owe their existence to white fathers" (11).
Logos
Douglass compares the treatment of Horses and Slaves, exposing how Horses are treated far better (ch. 3).
Irony
Had never previously owned slaves and was initially very kind to Douglass.
Sophia Auld
Douglass learned to do this by trading bread and tricking white boys into teaching him.
Read and write
Radical abolitionist who believed that violent revolution was the best means of ending slavery. Was executed for murdering several people during the raid on Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
The fact that Douglass was a slave and therefore, had firsthand knowledge of what slavery was like.
Ethos
Doulgass' vivid description of his Aunt Hester being whipped (ch. 1).
Imagery
One of the first overseers mentioned in the book. Douglass plays on the irony of his name.
Mr. Severe
Douglass learned his first letters by reading boards at this location.
The Shipyard in Baltimore
Credited with writing the first slave narrative about his experience being kidnapped from his home in Nigeria.
Olaudah Equiano
Douglass makes the argument that slavery should be abolished because it is has dehumanizing effects on everyone: slaves and slave-owners (ch.7).
Logos
Douglass refers to the curse of Ham in the Bible (ch. 1).
Allusion