The Life Story of Frederick Douglass, an autobiography of Frederick Douglass which describes the hardships and abuses he witnessed and felt as a slave, gives the reader insight about what it was like to be a slave in America. The type of slavery that Frederick Douglass endured as a domestic slave for many years in Maryland was not as harsh or difficult as being a slave in another state like Tennessee, further to the North, or on a different plantation used as a slave. a field worker. Frederick Douglass had the luxury of living for a time in a town where "a slave is almost a free man, compared to those on a plantation" and where "there is a vestige of decency" and "a sense of shame ” which makes the city slave owners nicer, because they don't want to seem like mean slave owners to their non-slave owning neighbors. Even with this fact in mind, the reader is still able to understand the types of punishments that took place, how slaves were treated, and what it was like to live life as a slave through the details that Frederick Douglass writes in his book about his experiences during his years as a slave and what it meant to become a free man. Near the beginning of his book, Frederick Douglas relates how he was a slave in Baltimore for a Mr. Hugh Auld. In this house, Douglass learns that even the kindest people, like Mr. Auld's wife Sophia, are transformed into very different people because of slavery. When Douglass first meets Mrs. Auld, he describes her as "a woman of the kindest heart and noblest feelings...none left without feeling better for having seen her." However, once her husband told her how to treat slaves and she felt what it was like to be in control of another human being... in the middle of a sheet of paper. The book also shows how even a man who has Those who have been beaten, starved and "broken in body, mind and soul" can rise up from slavery and fight back. Douglass goes through many horrible events as a slave, but once he discovers that reading is the path to freedom, his life changes forever. He is continually driven by the desire to escape slavery and even goes so far as to fight one of his masters in an event that Douglass calls "the turning point of (his) career as a slave". On September 3, 1838, Frederick Douglass was free. man. Although little is said about his escape from slavery, he not only tells us what it felt like to finally be free, but he also gives us some details about what it was like to be free for the first time, of not trusting anyone and feeling paranoid that at that moment, every time he could be caught, then gradually he accepts the help offered to him and build a new life..