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Why were city slaves treated better than country slaves?
Urban slavery provided, most of the time, an easier life for a slave. Generally, a slave from the city would be better clothed, fed, and would avoid most of the physical abuse suffered by the rural slave. When Douglass lived as a slave in Baltimore, he was always well fed and clothed.
Why did slaves say a still tongue makes a wise head?
The frequency of this has had the effect to establish among the slaves the maxim, that a still tongue makes a wise head. They suppress the truth rather than take the consequences of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.
How was slavery injurious to master Hugh’s wife?
Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman. There was no sorrow or suffering for which she had not a tear. She had bread for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came within her reach.
Who is Mary and Henrietta in Frederick Douglass?
Thomas Hamilton. He owned two slaves. Their names were Henrietta and Mary. Henrietta was about twenty-two years of age, Mary was about fourteen; and of all the mangled and emaciated creatures I ever looked upon, these two were the most so.
Why did the slaves fear tar?
Colonel Lloyd keeps a lush and tempting garden, and slaves are often whipped for stealing fruit from it. In order to prevent theft from the garden, the encircling fence was coated in tar. Any slave who had tar on his body, for whatever reason, would be punished, and slaves began to fear tar itself.
What is the name of the woman who kills one of her slaves with an oak stick of wood?
Mrs. Hicks
Hicks. Mrs. Hicks, finding the girl slow to move, jumped from her bed, seized an oak stick of wood by the fireplace, and with it broke the girl’s nose and breastbone, and thus ended her life.
What is it that Douglass says looked from every star?
It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. From this quotation you see that Douglass’ literacy is directly responsible for his desire for “Freedom” which leads to his eventual escape and emancipation.