Fredrick Like Me Book Report

I am going to start by saying i thoroughly enjoyed this book and think especially right now it is so relevant with some of the issues we are facing right now in media with the police shootings and things going on with our president. Everyone needs to read this book. This book starts off with a young boy named Douglas born in Talbot County, Maryland. Fredrick Like most people who write books about their own lives goes on with basic things like talking about age in that current part of the book, family, birthdays, early memories and things like that that which normally are introductions to a person. Well the first basic thing like him talking about his age is where u start seeing the dehumanizing effects of slavery in this book, also the first …show more content…
He overheard his master speaking one time and he thinks he was born around 1818. Not given information about birth is the the only thing but the person who gave birth to you is also not important. When frederick was young he was separated from his mother and hardly saw her except on the few occasions where she would walk the 12 miles to see him. She would leave her pert of the plantation and walk, which she did not do often because as a slave she had to still report the next morning for her duties and failure to report means whippings, beatings, exc. Then when he was still young the news go to him that she had died and that didn't bother him much because of the small connection he had other. Frederick thinks and is almost sure he is a product of rape by his slaveholder. Rape was common practice because that increases the number of slaves without having to buy or trade new ones. And i know you think well it might not be bad because that's one less parent to have to worry about but actually a lot of the mixed race slaves have it worse because the slaveholder has a bit more shame so the mothers get more torture discipline. Douglas