His killing of a slave named Demby, which goes unpunished, illustrates that killing or harming a black person is not treated as a crime. Austin Gore, is a particularly cruel disciplinarian. Lloyd is an unkind master, and, like other slaveholders, he will discipline the slaves if they speak honestly about the discomfort of their circumstances. Lloyd himself lives in the middle of his plantation on a property called the Great House Farm, which is so majestic that some slaves feel honored to work there. Captain Anthony is employed by Colonel Edward Lloyd, and Anthony lives in a house on Lloyd’s sprawling property with his sons, Andrew and Richard his daughter, Lucretia and Lucretia’s husband, Captain Thomas Auld. Douglass encounters slavery’s brutality at an early age when he witnesses his first master, Captain Anthony, give a brutal whipping to Douglass’s Aunt Hester. His mother is a slave named Harriet Bailey, and his father is an unknown white man who may be his master. In approximately 1817, Frederick Douglass is born into slavery in Tuckahoe, Maryland.
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