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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
02/07/2011

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Douglass's Birthplace
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Talbot County, Maryland
The Eastern Coast
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Douglass's parents
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Mother-Harriet Bailey
Father-Unnamed white man, probably Captain Anthony
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Captain Anthony
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Douglass’s first master and probably his father. He is the clerk for Colonel Lloyd, managing Lloyd’s surrounding plantations and the overseers of those plantations. He is cruel man who takes pleasure in whipping his slaves, especially Douglass’s Aunt Hester.He once piloted ships up the Chesapeake Bay.
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Colonel Edward Lloyd
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Captain Anthony’s boss and Douglass’s first owner. He is an extremely rich man who owns all of the slaves and lands where Douglass grows up.
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Lucretia Auld
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Captain Anthony’s daughter and Thomas Auld’s wife. After Captain Anthony’s death, She inherits half his property, including Douglass. She is as cruel an owner as her husband.
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Captain Thomas Auld
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Lucretia Auld’s husband and Hugh Auld’s brother. He did not grow up owning slaves, but gained them through his marriage to Lucretia. After attending a church meeting in Maryland, he becomes a “pious” man, but he uses his newfound Christianity to be even more self-righteously brutal toward his slaves.
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Hugh Auld
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Thomas Auld’s brother and Douglass’s occasional master. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, Sophia. Thomas and Lucretia Auld allow Him to borrow Douglass as a servant for His son, Thomas. He is well aware that whites maintain power over blacks by depriving them of education, and he unwittingly enlightens Douglass in this matter. He becomes harsher due to a drinking habit in his later years.
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Sophia Auld
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Hugh Auld’s wife. She was a working woman before marrying Hugh, and she had never owned slaves. The corruption of owning a slave transforms her from a sympathetic, kind woman into a vengeful monster.
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Edward Covey
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A notorious slave “breaker” and Douglass’s keeper for one year. Slave owners send their unruly slaves to him, who works and punishes them and returns them trained and docile. His tactics as a slaveholder are both cruel and sneaky. He is deliberately deceptive and devious when interacting with his slaves, creating an atmosphere of constant surveillance and fear. "The Snake."
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Betsy Bailey
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Douglass’s grandmother. She raised Douglass on Captain Anthony’s land after Douglass’s mother was taken away. She served the Anthony family her whole life and had many children and grandchildren who became slaves for the Anthonys. She is abandoned to a hut in the woods instead of being allowed to go free.
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Aunt Hester
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Douglass’s aunt. She is an exceptionally beautiful and noble-looking woman. Captain Anthony is extraordinarily interested in her, and she therefore suffers countless whippings at his hands.
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Harriet Bailey
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Douglass’s mother. She is separated from Douglass after his birth, but she still attempts to maintain family relations by walking twelve miles to see him at night. She dies when Douglass is young
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Sandy Jenkins
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A slave acquaintance of Douglass. The highly superstitious man stands in the Narrative as a representative of all uneducated, superstitious slaves. He is kind to Douglass when Douglass runs away from Covey’s, but the Narrative also implies that he may have informed William Freeland about Douglass’s plans to escape.
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William Freeland
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Douglass’s keeper for two years following his time with Covey. He is the most fair and straightforward of all Douglass’s masters and is not hypocritically pious.
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William Hamilton
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Father-in-law of Thomas Auld. After Lucretia Auld’s death, Thomas remarries his oldest daughter. He sometimes takes charge of Douglass, as when he arrests Douglass for plotting to escape from Freeland.
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William Gardner
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A Baltimore shipbuilder. Hugh Auld sends Douglass to him to learn the trade of caulking. His shipyard is disorderly with racial tension between free-black carpenters and white carpenters.
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Anna Murray
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Douglass’s wife. She is a free black woman from Baltimore who becomes engaged to Douglass before he escapes to freedom. After his escape, she and Douglass marry in New York and then move to New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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Nathan Johnson
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A Massachusetts worker and abolitionist. He is immediately kind and helpful to the Douglasses, loaning them money, helping Douglass find work, and suggesting Douglass’s new name.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He meets Douglass when Douglass is persuaded to tell his history at an abolitionist convention in Nantucket in 1841. Immediately impressed with Douglass’s poise and with the power of his story, he hires him for the abolitionist cause.
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Wendell Phillips
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President of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He considers Douglass a close friend. He admires Douglass’s bravery in publishing his history without pseudonyms, but also fears for Douglass’s safety.
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Full Title
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself
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Publisher
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American Anti-Slavery Society
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Settings
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Eastern Shore of Maryland (Birth-about age 7); Baltimore; New York City (After escape); New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Columbian Orator
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A collection of classic speeches, dialogues, and plays edited by Caleb Bingham and published in 1797. Douglass patterned his own lectures after these classic speeches.
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