Frederick Douglass Chapter 7 Summary

In Chapter 7, Frederick Douglass stars off by telling us that he lived in Master Hugh’s family for about seven years. He had learned to read and write during this time, but it was not easy. There were some diversion from his teaching, like his mistress who was the only source for him to read and write was in compliance to her husband to not teach her slave anything. She was a kind and tender hearted woman who had lost her way when given the power of a slave holder. She became cruel and her heart became like stone. She would also be crueler than her husband and “she also demonstrated, to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incompatible to each other” (Douglass 22). Slavery also proved to be harmful even to white people
Thus, his property was to be divided equally between Mrs. Lucretia and Andrew. Douglass had to leave Baltimore to be evaluated with other slaves at the plantations. Douglass left Baltimore with a heart full of sadness. After the evaluation the time had come for the division of property and nobody wanted to be the property of Master Andrew. He was a cruel drunkard who had also wasted a large portion of his father’s property by reckless mismanagement. Douglass also felt that he had an advantage when it came to experience kindness and less whipping than his fellow
In March, 1832, he left Baltimore and went to live with Thomas Auld, at St. Michael’s. Master Thomas was a cruel man and his wife was equally as cruel. Douglass was suffering from hunger as Master Thomas would not give enough food to his slaves. Douglass used to work in the kitchen alongside his sister, his aunt and one more slave. They all received less than half of a bushel of corn meal per week. They all had to resort to stealing and begging food in order to survive. Captain Auld was not born with slaves. He received his slaves through marriage. He was a cruel man, but also a coward. He would order without firmness. He would copy other people to have the qualities of a slaveholder and he himself does not and which is why his slaves used to call him by “Captain Auld” as he lack the firmness to be called a