How Is Frederick Douglass Told In Chapter 1

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born in Tuckahoe a town in Talbot County, Maryland. Douglass was concerned with the year of his birth, which is said to have been in 1818. Due to the fact that most slaves were not allowed to know their age and white kids were, he was upset and very unhappy. Fredrick Douglass was separated from his mother Harriett Bailey soon after birth, but occasionally seen by her when she would walk twelve miles after dark to lie next to him. Harriett passed away when Douglass was about seven years old and he was deeply affected by her death. Douglass knew nothing about his father other than he was a white man and was rumored to have been his master. Douglass used the book as a way to show the evil underside of slavery. For example in Chapter 1 he describes how white slave owners would impregnate their slaves as a way to explain and educate the white audience about what went on at the slave plantations. Douglass also

Douglass asked to find his own work and was turned down by Thomas Auld as he assumes he would escape. A couple months later Douglass asks Hugh Auld who agrees that he should indeed find his own work and would have to pay Thomas 3 dollars each week for supplies and clothing. Douglass resolves to escape on the third of September. He decides to work carefully until the 3rd of September to keep Auld from growing any suspicions He grew anxiety about leaving his Baltimore friends and the thought he would fail to escape but then proceeds to his plan and moves smoothly to New York. Anna Douglass’s soon to be wife joins him in New York where they got married. They then started heading to New Bedford where they received help from Mr. and Mrs. Johnson a couple they had met who offered to pay their travel debt and help them choose a new name for a new beginning. Mr. Johnson suggested “ Douglass,” which comes from a knight in Sir Walter Scott’s Lady Of The