1. Ch. 1 Summary
Frederick Douglass was born a slave. He barely knew his mother, and all he knew about his father was that he was a white man and probably his mster. He was deeply affected when he saw his aunt brutally whipped at a young age, but as a child he was treated fairly well. When his mother died, he felt like she was a stranger

2. Ch. 1 Characters
Frederick Douglass – author, writing about his childhood as a slave Harriet Bailey – Douglass’s mother who died when he was seven Isaac and Betsey Bailey – Douglass’s grandparents Mr. Stewart – Douglass’s mother’s master Captain Anthony – Douglass’s first master Mr. Plummer – the overseer Aunt Hester – Douglass’s aunt who was brutally whipped for being seen with a man, Ned Colonel Lloyd – Ned’s master (and later Douglass’s

3. Ch. 1 Setting
Tuckahoe, Maryland – Where Douglass was born Colonel Lloyd’s plantation – where Douglass’s aunt goes to see Ned

4. Ch. 1 Powerful Language
“It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass.” “For what this separation is done, I do not know, unless it be to hinder the development of the child’s affection toward its mother, and to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother for the child.” “(By) this cunning arrangement, the slaveholder, in cases not a few, sustains to his slaves the double relation of master and father.”

5. Ch. 2 Summary
Frederick Douglass “gives some description of (Col. Lloyd’s plantation) and slavery” as it existed on the plantation. Col. Lloyd’s home plantation, known as The Great House Farm was a “great business place” and the “seat of government for the whole twenty farms.” Douglass details the limited, clothing, food, allowance, and sleeping quarters of slaves and their harsh working schedules. Douglass informs the reader of the cruelness of Mr. Severe as well as the “good overseer” in Mr. Hopkins. He also describes the songs that slaves sang that were “a testimony against slavery and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.”

6. Ch. 2 - Col. Lloyds Farm Douglass’s first Master – Captain Anthony
Cpt. Thomas Auld
Andrew
Lucretia
Richard

7. Setting
Col. Lloyd’s Home Plantation (The Great House Farm) – Maryland. Raised tobacco, corn, wheat slaves. “Great business place.” Gave direction to neighboring farms. Mechanical operations performed here (mending, blacksmithing, etc.). Slaves associated GHF with “greatness Wye Town – Farm close to home plantation, Noah Willis - overseer New Design – Farm close to home plantation, Mr. Townsend - overseer

8. Col. Lloyd’s home plantation and neighboring farms
Wye Town
Home Plantation
New Design

9. Characters
Cpt. Anthony – Col. Lloyd’s clerk and superintendent. “The overseer of the overseer’s” Andrew and Richard Anthony – Sons of Cpt. Anthony Lucretia Auld – Daughter of Cpt. Anthony Cpt. Thomas Auld – Husband of Lucretia Peter, Issacc, Rich, Jake – Slaves that worked on the sloop, Sally Lloyd. Noah Willis – Overseer of Wye Town Mr. Townsend – Overseer of New Design Mr. Severe – Overseer, cruel, profane swearer, took pleasure in whipping, died after FD went to Col. Lloyd’s Mr. Hopkins – Replaced Mr. Sever as overseer, less cruel, less profane, didn’t take pleasure in whipping

10. Powerful Language
“Added to his cruelty, he was a profane swearer. It was enough to chill the blood and stifefn the hair of an ordinary man to hear him talk.” “A representative could not be prouder of his election to a seat in the American Congress, than a slave on one of the outfarms would be of his election to do errands at the Great House Farm.” “The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek.”