Frederick Douglass was an American slave boy in Maryland. He was born sometime in 1818, though the date is not exactly known. Many slave-owners thought it best to keep information on a slave’s birth from them, almost so the slaves would think that they, themselves, weren't quite human.
Life for Frederick was difficult, to put it lightly. He began life with his mother until she was sent away. He was then enslaved under Captain Anthony, of whom it was believed to be Frederick’s father. Someone that actually had a positive impact on Frederick’s life, at first, was Sophia Auld, who started out as an affectionate, sweet, and tender-hearted woman. She treated Frederick like a human being, seeing as how he was her first slave, and she had never had one before. She taught him the ABC’s and would have taught him how to read if her husband, Hugh Auld, had not intervened, explaining how he thought a slave ought to be treated. Mr. Auld thought that if slaves had an education they would consider themselves to be equal to the whites and that they had rights. Afterward, Sophia became accustomed to having slaves and became cruel and harsh, not being the kind-hearted woman she had once been. Therefore, Frederick took matters into his own hands. He agreed with Hugh Auld to an extent; with knowledge came power. So he set off to learn how to read and write; one of his sources was the poor …show more content…
Their friendship had sent him in the right direction and he had enjoyed being around people that didn’t see him as a lowly slave. In due time, after all of the beatings Frederick had endured from different “masters”, he
Life for Frederick was difficult, to put it lightly. He began life with his mother until she was sent away. He was then enslaved under Captain Anthony, of whom it was believed to be Frederick’s father. Someone that actually had a positive impact on Frederick’s life, at first, was Sophia Auld, who started out as an affectionate, sweet, and tender-hearted woman. She treated Frederick like a human being, seeing as how he was her first slave, and she had never had one before. She taught him the ABC’s and would have taught him how to read if her husband, Hugh Auld, had not intervened, explaining how he thought a slave ought to be treated. Mr. Auld thought that if slaves had an education they would consider themselves to be equal to the whites and that they had rights. Afterward, Sophia became accustomed to having slaves and became cruel and harsh, not being the kind-hearted woman she had once been. Therefore, Frederick took matters into his own hands. He agreed with Hugh Auld to an extent; with knowledge came power. So he set off to learn how to read and write; one of his sources was the poor …show more content…
Their friendship had sent him in the right direction and he had enjoyed being around people that didn’t see him as a lowly slave. In due time, after all of the beatings Frederick had endured from different “masters”, he