![]() ![]() It is actually best if he sells these children to another slaveholder. The slaveowner himself must watch his white sons abuse their black brothers. They must always fear the wrath of the slaveowner's wife their presence was a constant reminder of her husband's infidelity. ![]() Children born from slave mothers and white fathers – mulattos – experienced far more difficulties than did other children. Slave children always followed the condition of their mother, a fact Douglass noted was no doubt due to slaveowners' pernicious lustful designs upon slave women. They rarely spoke and when she died when he was seven, he did not feel much more than he would have as if a stranger died. He saw her about four to five times and always at night she would travel to where he was enslaved and lie with him at night. His father was unknown to him, but he was a white man and perhaps even his first master.ĭouglass's relationship with his mother was brief and characterized by a lack of emotion on his part owing to their infrequent visits. His mother's name was Harriet Bailey, a very dark-skinned daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey. ![]() ![]() He did not know his age because no accurate records were kept, and slaves were generally bereft of information about their lives. Douglass began his narrative by noting the place of his birth – Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, twelve miles from Talbot County, Maryland. ![]()
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