In the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave” by Frederick Douglass, tells his part in how he suffered and how he struggle to achieve freedom. As well as in Jacobs’s autobiography Douglass tells how he was mistreated too. Douglass experienced kindliness, and affection with one of his owners, Hugh Auld and Sophia, where she did not treat him badly on the contrary Sophia was kind with him. Compared to the other master, Douglas said, “Mr. Plummer was a miserable drunkard, a profane swearer, and a savage monster” (Douglas 1184). In one occurrence, Douglass witnessed a terrified action. Douglas stated, “Before he commenced whipping Aunt Hester… he commenced to lay on the heavy cowskin, and soon the warm, red blood came
