The second was the terror of whipping for the least defiance. The number of the lashes depended on the gravity of disobedience. Both men and women were whipped on the plantations. Douglass’s narrative is the true description of cruel master, mistress, or overseer getting violent towards slaves. Douglass details his first surveillance of whipping followed by several other whippings. When he was young, during his plantation life, he viewed and observed his master’s cruelty in punishing his aunt. Douglass describes the atrocious happening
