Born in the year 1817, Frederick Douglass lived not with his mother and father like the white children of that era would, but with his grandparents. Living with them it was a long time before he knew himself to be a slave. As he began to mature in age and understanding he began to realize that the house and land he had grown to love, belonged not to his loving grandparents but to one his grandmother always referred to as "Old Master." Understanding this also brought the knowledge that his grandmother, himself and all the other children around belonged not to themselves as freemen but to "Old Master."

Even through all this, still did he not realize what it meant to be a slave until around the age of seven or eight when he was carried to "Old Master's" plantation where he was to begin the labors expected of him. At the change of scene he was introduced to brothers and sisters he hadn't before met or seen. He was expected to treat them as long lost relatives he had once again discovered but to do this he would have had to know about their existence and spent time with them b

City Slaves had life a bit easier because not everyone in the city owned slaves and for this reason slaveholders did not want to appear inhumane towards their human chattels in the eyes of their non-slave holding neighbors. City slaves worked and associated with freemen and therefore their ideas of slavery were much different. They were better fed, better clothed and their appearance seemed less dejected. They were even at times given a few hours to themselves for the sake of their own entertainment without the watchful eyes of their master.

City Slaves had life a bit easier because not everyone in the city owned slaves and for this reason slaveholders did not want to appear inhumane towards their human chattels in the eyes of their non-slave holding neighbors. City slaves worked and associated with freemen and therefore their ideas of slavery were much different. They were better fed, better clothed and their appearance seemed less dejected. They were even at times given a few hours to themselves for the sake of their own entertainment without the watchful eyes of their master.

Although he was the property of "Old Master" throughout his life he would call many people master. At around the age of ten he was sent to Baltimore to live with a relative of "Old Master", Master Hugh Auld. For the first time, he was living in a big city and got to see the differences between city slaves and country slaves.

Henny would be tied up for three, four and five hours at a time. Their master would tie her up early in the morning whip her with a cow-skin before breakfast; leave her tied up; go to his store and returning to his dinner repeat his previous displays of inhumanity. Laying on lash after lash on flesh already made raw by repeated blows. At the completion of his evil deed with "blood-chilling blasphemy" he would quote passages from the Bible, which inevitable placed him in the right.

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