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Slaveholding In The Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass

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A particular section in the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” that stood out to me was the section where Douglass goes on to describe how slaveholding has negative affects and changes a person. Thomas Auld and Edward Covey are men in the story that both pretend to be something that they are not. Thomas auld tries to be the almighty and powerful slaveholder but eventually becomes crueler because cannot pretend to be an all powerful slaveholder, that the slaves know it is for show. Edward Covey pretends to be a Christian man but, any Christian man would not submit such cruelty to any kind of human being. The last example of slaveholding changing people for the worse is Sophia Auld. Before she was a slaveholder she is kind, hard working,
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