How Did Frederick Douglass Describe Mr. Auld

In Frederick Douglass autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick describes life as a slave and facing good and bad slave owners, but one owner, Sophia Auld, changed throughout. Mrs. Auld was the wife of Hugh Auld and Douglass was her first slave to own. Douglass described Mr. Auld as greedy, however Mrs. Auld was kind and she even taught Douglass how to read. Mr. Auld persuaded Mrs. Auld to stop teaching Douglass and she began to treat him like property.

Mrs. Auld had never owned a slave which attributed to her kindness toward Douglass. Douglass never meet a slave owner so kind, and he is very confused by her kind gestures. He doesn’t know how to behave around her because as a slave he must act