North Vs. South
Douglass notes that this practice was more constrained in cities like Baltimore, where "a city slave is almost a freeman" compared to plantation slaves.
What is physical punishment/whipping?
Douglass describes how this woman's character dramatically changed from "heavenly smiles" to having "the voice of a demon" after becoming corrupted by the power of slaveholding.
Who is Sophia Auld?
When forbidden from continuing his lessons with Sophia Auld, Douglass devised this clever method to continue learning using neighborhood children.
What is trading bread for lessons? (Accept: turning teaching into a game with white children)
On Colonel Lloyd's plantation, slaves received this monthly food allowance, which Douglass describes as inadequate.
What is eight pounds of pork (or equivalent in fish) and one bushel of corn meal?
In Chapter 3, Douglass describes Colonel Lloyd's expensive horses receiving better care than his slaves, leading to this severe consequence for old Barney if the horses didn't look perfect.
What is whipping? (Accept: physical punishment)
Unlike on plantations, Douglass describes city slaveholders as concerned about this perception among their neighbors.
What is being known as a cruel master?
After this event, Douglass wrote, "It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood."
What is the fight with Covey?
Douglass learned to write by studying and copying letters written onthese objects created by ship carpenters at the shipyard.
What is timber/ship wood.
Upon arriving in New York as a free man, Douglass changed his name multiple times before settling on "Frederick Douglass," which was suggested by this person after reading "The Lady of the Lake."
Who is Nathan Johnson?
Douglass describes this technique used by Colonel Lloyd to prevent slaves from stealing fruit from his garden, which resulted in harsh punishments for innocent people.
What is tarring the fence?
Upon arriving in this city, Douglass was shocked by seeing free Black people living in greater comfort than many Southern slaveholders.
What is New Bedford?
Douglass notes that when this person took religious leadership roles after his conversion, he became even crueler to his slaves, using scripture to justify his brutality.
Who is Thomas Auld?
This book containing a dialogue between a master and slave and speeches on Catholic emancipation was crucial to Douglass developing his understanding of human rights.
This economic arrangement allowed Douglass to find his own work and keep the remainder of his earnings after paying Master Hugh a set weekly fee.
What is hiring out his time?
In describing the psychological methods used by Covey, Douglass reveals this animal-like surveillance technique that earned Covey the nickname "the snake."
What is crawling through the grass/sneaking up on workers?
Contrary to his expectations, Douglass found this surprising economic reality in the North that challenged Southern arguments about slavery's necessity.
What is prosperity without slave labor?
When Douglass arrived in this location, his perception of race relations was transformed, as he observed formerly enslaved people living in "finer houses" than many Southern slaveholders.
What is New Bedford?
What is teaching others to read?
Douglass states his father was likely this person, illustrating how slavery corrupted family relationships and allowed masters to "sustain to his slaves the double relation of master and father."
Who is his master? (Accept: Captain Anthony)
When an enslaved person trespassed onto this neighbor's property while fishing for oysters, the owner fatally shot him, yet the incident was "hushed up" with little concern.
Who is Mr. Beal Bondly?
After his escape, Douglass was astonished to find this group in the North engaged in certain trades that were denied to Black workers in the South.
What are free Black craftsmen/skilled workers?
Douglass describes his transformation from a "slave in form" to "a freeman in fact" due to a psychological change which occurred following this event.
What is the fight with Covey?
After learning to read newspapers, Douglass described discovering a specific abolitionist movement, saying "the light broke in upon me by degrees" when he understood what 'abolition' meant. He says that he "got one of our city papers, containing an account of the number of petitions from the north, praying for the abolition of slavery in [this specific city]".
What is Washington, DC?
When white workers at Gardner's shipyard refused to work with Black carpenters, Douglass identified this economic motivation behind their racial prejudice.
What is fear of job competition? (Accept: fear that free Black workers would 'take' their jobs)
This man killed two slaves, one with a hatchet, yet faced no consequences and even boasted about the murders, demonstrating the legal impunity of slaveholders.
Who is Thomas Lanman?