Frederick Douglass Short Story About Slave Condition

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Douglass also mention about slave condition. He talks about master Thomas, he is mean guy, he wasn’t giving slave enough food to eat, and he stated that “we were allowed less than a half of a bushed of corn meal per week, and very little else, either in the shape of meat or vegetable” (62). it could be right because in chapter V also he discusses about how slave suffered from hunger and cold. He was kept naked without shoes, jacket, or pants. Only little shirt to each until knee. “our food was coarse corn meal boiled. This was called mush” (Douglass 40). according to University of, V. (1995) One of slave write story about his slavery. In his story, he discusses about slave condition also such as “My earliest recollection of myself is, as a