For slaves and slaveholders, the life in the south was not always positive. Douglass realized this as he moved to different families. The slaveholders did not notice, but the slaves did. Slaveholders thought it was what the slaves wanted or that is what they told people. They were just trying to hide what they wanted from other people and to make those people be like them.
Slaves were basically considered livestock, not human beings. “We were all ranked together at valuation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine”(Douglass 163). They did not have acceptable living quarters. “There were no beds given the slaves, unless one coarse blanket be considered such, and none but the men and women
Slaves were basically considered livestock, not human beings. “We were all ranked together at valuation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine”(Douglass 163). They did not have acceptable living quarters. “There were no beds given the slaves, unless one coarse blanket be considered such, and none but the men and women