Frederick Douglass Cause And Effect Essay

One of the many incident that motivated Frederick Douglass to run away, was when he witnessed the murder of his Aunt Hester by his old master Anthony. Who disobeyed Anthony one night and went out to see Ned Roberts who was otherwise known as Lloyd’s Ned. Anthony, who favored and wanted Hester all to himself, took this as a sign of unfaithfulness and unloyalty. Filled with envy and rage, who took it upon himself to set an example and to fill his bitter void heart with what he thought was deemable justice. Douglass at the time was merely a child and was traumatized by this horrifying ordeal. He was so traumatized that he remembered the horrific scene in vivid detail. For he had never seen such cruelty ever before for he was cared for by his …show more content…
Gore a top overseer of Colonel Lloyd who owned one of the many plantation that Douglass worked in prior to coming to Baltimore under the servitude of Mr. and Mrs. Auld. Mr. Gore was a harsh and cruel man, who on the daily would find any reason to punish and abuse the slaves that he was in charge of. On one instance Mr. Gore took to punishing Demby, by giving him lashes with a cowskin whip. Intolerable of the pain that was being inflicted upon him, ran into the middle of the creek. In which Mr. Gore ordered him to get out by the end of the third call, or he would be shot. And without hesitation on the third call, shot Demby point blank dead in the middle of the creek. Mr. Gore did not see Demby as a human being, for he did not hesitated to murdering him in cold blood in daylight, where all can see. The power that was granted to Mr. Gore by Colonel Lloyd allowed Mr. Gore to do whatever he see fit. No guilt nor regret was brought upon Mr. Gore conscious, when Colonel Lloyd and Douglass’s old master Anthony question him in doing so. He argued that he was setting an example and by being true to his unbending word of shooting a the third call, he was instilling fear and power of authority to all the slaves who witness it. He was not convicted or punished for such heinous crime, for a slave was not a person, but merely property that the owner would best fit see to …show more content…
Giles Hicks killed Douglass’s wife’s cousin, who was between fifteen and sixteen years old. In which Mrs. Hicks took upon to breaking her nose, breastbone with a stick, then afterwards end up murdering her just becauses she fell asleep supervising Mrs. Hicks’s baby. For she previously that night was succumbed to weariness from the sleep that she was deprived of for several nights prior. In which the consequence of such action was that there was a warrant for her arrest but it was never served. Meaning that no one attempted to bring Mrs. Hicks to trial for the murder of Douglass’s wife’s cousin. And so she was murdered simply for succumbing to sleep for a short period while Mrs. Hicks was still in the room. The power to own a slave and do whatever thou shalt please with a slave for they were deemed as property and not as human being, corrupted the mind and sense of right morals for Mrs. Hicks. And if there is no consequences for such crime, then the power to do whatever thou shalt please seems endless. Much like how Mrs. Hicks is able to justify how she is kind and gentle with her own child, but a ruthless savage towards slaves. For slaves are not human being in her mind, they are merely