Aaron Anthony Research Paper

By the time Frederick made six years old, his grandmother could no longer harboring the facts from him. His grandmother had told Frederick that they were going for a long walk, when she was actually walking him into slavery (8, 1). They walked many days and finally ended up at a very beautiful large house that was actually the Lloyd Plantation. There were other children playing outside and his grandmother told Frederick that three of the children were his brothers and sisters. She let Frederick go and play with them (8, 1). Very soon after this, his grandmother left and Frederick now belonged to a slave owner named Aaron Anthony (6). Aaron Anthony was not a rich slave owner as he only had two or three farms. Aaron Anthony still had an overseer …show more content…
Aaron Anthony’s daughter, Lucretia Auld, was immediately drawn to these unique characteristics and took a liking to Frederick, doing whatever was within her powers to protect him (8, 2). In 1826, she informed him that he was being sent to live with her brother-in-law, Hugh Auld, to run errands and care for his baby son, Tommy (2, 168). Frederick enjoyed this easy work and grew to love the little boy (8, 2). Sophia Auld, Tommy’s mother, would often read aloud from the Bible and Douglass would often listen, really excited. One day, when Frederick was about ten-years-old, he Sophia Auld to teach him to read and she readily consented (6). Sophia became so excited about how well young Frederick was doing, she told her husband what she had done (8, 2). Hugh became very mad. It was prohibited by the state to teach a slave to read and felt a slave was considered “unfit” if he was competent and literate (8, 2). Mr. Auld instructed Sophia to stop the lessons immediately, but this restriction failed to hinder Frederick by any means. It was from this outburst of disapproval from his master that Frederick discovered that learning how to read and write was his pathway to