Summary: The Life Of Fredrick Douglass

In his Autobiography The Life of Fredrick Douglass by Fredrick Douglass, FD learns how to defend and protect himself from the life of slavery and overcome lots of obstacles in his way like when he fought back against his owners and fought for freedom. He was very influential for a lot of other slaves, helping them to escape and fight back. The way he stands up for his friends and family is amazing. He would take a whooping for them so that they would be safe and not get hurt. Frederick Douglass was one of the only slaves to fight back against his owners and gain his freedom by fighting. Douglass didn’t want freedom for himself, but for his friends and family so they could live free too. “ Mr Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body,

Mr. Covey was a very mean man who manipulated his slaves and treated them worse than anyone Douglass had ever seen. Then just one day he had enough and said he needed to fight back. Frederick was born into slavery and didn’t have a family when growing up. The only close family he had was his grandma, who took care of all the kids. So his childhood was unfortunate and hard for him. He was given barely any clothes and food to survive and sometimes they would be in the fields with no clothes because their others were all destroyed. “The allowance of the slave children was given to their mothers, or the old women having the care of them. The children unable to work in the field had neither shoes, stockings, jackets, nor trousers, given to them; their clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts per year. When these failed, they went naked until the next allowance-day”(chapter 2). Not even the adults would get a lot, but they got more than the kids because they worked in the fields. He fought to grow up without a family with no clothes and pretty much learned everything himself. He was taught how to read when he was on the