How Does Frederick Douglass Tell The Story In Chapter 1

In chapter VII, Douglass says of Mrs. Auld that “Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me.” It didn’t really injure her as much as Douglass because of all the stuff that he went through as a slave. Such as watching his aunt got whipped by his slaveowner (Chapter 1), he couldn’t do anything but just to watch. Not only his aunt, but also many other strangers that he saw got whipped by their slaveowners, and himself got whipped. This not only hurts him physically, but also mentally. Mrs. Auld herself is what the lesson of slave and owner relationship that makes her became a cruel person. At first he was treated as good as Mrs. Auld’s son, “Very soon after I went to live with Mr. and Mrs. Auld, she very kindly commenced to teach me the

The reason that Douglass succeeded is the bravery that he had to rebel against his master. For example, in chapter X, he was trying to escape from his “new” owner Mr. Covey’s plantation but ended up being caught, the next day instead of let him whip douglass, he took his action and fought back instead. The bravery of his action gain him some freedom and how Mr. Covey never ever whip him again or even touch him again. He was abused with violence, and he uses violence to kind of a “revenge” to gain some privilege for himself for the rest of the four years as a slave. “From this time I was never again what might be called fairly whipped, though I remained a slave for four years

For example, in chapter 4, Mr. Gore whipped a slave, but when the slave ran away after being whipped, he immediately killed the slave without any further investigation for this murder. “I speak advisedly when I say this, - that killing a slave, or any colored person, in Talbot county, Maryland, is not treated as a crime, either by the courts or the community.” Mr. Gore is not the only cases in this situation, however, this shows the difference between white people and slaves by how things done wrong by the slaves, they ended up being killed, whipped, or sent away, but white people are free from whatever they do and they don't get punished from what they have done even taking away someone else’s life. This convinced the northerners or white readers with the events he witnessed, that white man killing blacks or colored people without suffering any legal