From reading the Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass. Slaves were terrified of thinking about escaping from their slave owners. They didn’t want to think about what might happen to them if they were caught. The slaves in the South during the 1800’s were precluded from thinking about escaping because they feared what might happen to them if their master found out. Some slaves who ran away from their slave owners were not happy when their slave owner found them because they would receive punishments they don't even want to think about. “A slave who ran away once would receive a terrible beating, punishment by their slave owners.”(melyjanex3.blogspot.com.,2011) The South had security all over the place, it was watched by many police and many slave catchers. So any slaves who escaped their slave owners would usually get caught in less than two days considering how much security they had in the South. Especially if the slaves had no place that they can hide at, they were easily caught and brought back to their slave owners. “A slave that had no idea of …show more content…
After the punishment, they were carried to Baltimore and sold to a slave tracker or to Austin Woolfolk to warn other slaves that this will happen to you if you do the same thing. “If a slave was convicted of any high misdemeanor, became unmanageable, or evinced a determination to run away, he was brought immediately, here, severely whipped, put on board the sloop, carried to Baltimore and sold to Austin Woolfolk, or some other slave-tracker , as a warning to the slaves remaining.”(Douglass,1845) Slave owners were very careful and always had eyes on the slaves. “Slave owners observed every move, every motion slaves made.”(melyjanex.blogspot.com,2011) Therefore, any slaves that try’s to run away from their slave owners would either get caught or escape if they’re