Frederick Douglass was born into the cruel world of slavery sometime in-between 1817 or 1818. I say ‘sometime in-between’ due to the fact that Douglass had no accurate information about his birth date. Douglass was separated from his mother and family not much longer after his birth and as for his father was believed to be his plantation owner at the time. As Douglass got older he worked for a man by the name of Colonel Lloyd, Lloyd owned hundreds and hundreds of slaves that all worked for him on his “Great House Farm”. Slaves that worked for Lloyd were overworked and treated brutally and received very little food and very little items of clothing, and absolutely no beds. Many of those who disobeyed or resisted were often whipped and beaten, and there was even a man shot by the overseers, the meanest overseers were Mr. Severe and Mr. Gore. Douglass’s life on his plantation although was not as hard as most plantation slaves. When he was 7, he was traded to a man named Hugh Auld, who lived in Baltimore. There, Douglass had a much easier and freer life. For the most part, city-slaves were treated much better. Sophia Auld, Hugh’s wife, began to teach Douglass how to read, until Hugh demanded her to stop. Eventually, Sophia understands how slaves were supposed to be treated and became as bad as most. Douglass met some younger boys who then taught him how to read and write and soon learned about the abolotion movements that was starting to gain attention. He resolves to escape to the North eventually. After being moved back to a plantation shortly after, many deaths occured and finally he escaped to Massachusetts, where Douglass becames a well known abolitionist through his