Frederick Douglas was born in Talbot County, Maryland. He was born a slave so he wasn’t allowed to know his age or any information about his parents. There were rumors saying that his father was a white man, perhaps even his master, but it was impossible to find out the truth. He did know his mother’s name was Harriet Bailey. He encountered with her about four or five times, when she would walk twelve miles from her master’s house to visit him at night. Unfortunately, she passed away when he was around seven but he didn’t have permission to attend her burial. As a child, Douglass didn’t have to do much because children don’t have the strength to do labor work in the fields, so he just sauntered around. He normally served Colonel’s grandson, Daniel to go hunting. Due to that reason, Daniel got attached to Douglas so it became one of the advantages. Yet, he was still miserable. Slave children didn’t have warm clothes except a long linen shirt, and corn boiled into mush was served as a meal for them. Later, he was chosen to go to Baltimore. He spent three days washing off the “plantation scurf” so they Baltimore people wouldn’t make fun of him. When he arrived, he was surprised by the kindness of his new mistress, Sophia Auld. She had never owned a slave before. She seemed like she didn’t know she’s supposed to treat them like human beings. Different from other white women, she did now punish him for looking into her eyes or something like that. As time goes by, the evil of owning a slave took over and turned her into a cruelty, inhumanity woman. When he first came, Mrs. Auld taught him the alphabet but Hugh Auld ordered her to stop whatever she was doing. He overheard the conversation between them. “If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master – to do as he is told to do. Leaning would spoil the best nigger in the world” (Douglass, The Narrative Of