In this biography ,”narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass” shows how slavery doesn't only negatively affects not only the slaves but also the slaveholders too. Way back when slaves were almost necessary for a farmer in the south, the slaves acted up and the cruel harsh punishments the slaveholders did to keep the slaves in line. Slaves had a cruel terrible life but the slaveholders were almost as bad, from getting threatened when crop wasn't done to becoming a slave himself.
According to Douglass in his article, biography of the life of “Frederick Douglass” slavery was one of the most popular and most expensive things on the market yet everybody had one. If you were back in the 1800’s would you wanna be a slave or a slaveholder? Although, when the slaves were bad they got punished the slaves would be beaten to near death. In conclusion one should consider how terrible, scary, and threatening the slave life was.
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I believe that slaves had it the worst but slaveholders still have a bad life. Mr. Plummer, an overseer for Anthony, was a drinker, a profane swearer, and a savage monster(Douglass page 3). An explanation is Plummer is under a ton of stress and anger just like the slaves. This next quote proves how slave owners are dead Inside too. The quote states,” Mr.Gore was a grave man, and ,though a young man, he indulged in no jokes, said no funny words, seldom smiled(Douglass page 13). An explanation to this is slaves were very sad and mad people, they got taken away from their families just to work for the rest of their life, I wouldn't be happy either. In conclusion of this paragraph slaves had it hard as well as the