Captain Anthony apparently wanted her for himself exclusively.įrom the very beginning of his Narrative, Douglass shocks and horrifies his readers. Plummer, as well as the story of Aunt Hester, who was brutally whipped by Captain Anthony because she fancied another slave. He tells about the brutality of his master's overseer, Mr. Douglass implies that these mulatto slaves are, for the most part, the result of white masters raping black slaves. Children of mixed-race parentage are always classified as slaves, Douglass says, and this class of mulattos is increasing rapidly. His mother, Harriet Bailey, was a field hand who wasn't allowed to see him very often she died when Douglass was seven years old. From hearsay, he estimates that he was born around 1817 and that his father was probably his first white master, Captain Anthony. Douglass begins his Narrative by explaining that he is like many other slaves who don't know when they were born and, sometimes, even who their parents are.
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