Essay of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass was an African-American slave reformer; he was also a writer and believed that everyone should be free. Douglass once said, “I would join with anyone to do good and with no one to do evil.” » He was ready to do anything to do good. In his story, he talks about the evils of slavery and many strategies to keep slavery alive as well as the tactics used to keep slaves in ignorance. In 1818, Douglass was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in Talbot County to his mother Harriet Bailey. ; although he didn't really know his mother until he was older, she died when he was younger. He did not know his mother because slave owners separated them from their mothers to destroy that mother-son bond; this was a tactic used to make slaves seen as tools rather than people. He never knew who his father was but suspected he was one of the plantation owners. Most plantation owners got by with slaves. This may have been a way to keep the population enslaved and profits were made through the sale of slaves as mixed race slaves became slaves under the law. Douglass was raised by his grandmother Betty Bailey. When he was still young, he was selected to work in the plantation house. Douglass was entrusted to his master's wife. After his master's death, he was sent to Baltimore to serve his master's wife's brother-in-law, Hugh Auld. Douglass' early childhood seemed to be difficult as he witnessed a lot of abuse and also suffered from it. He remembers witnessing the brutal whipping inflicted on his grandmother, but he remembers that the real pain was that he could do nothing to stop it. He uses a lot of scenes like this to provide examples of the inhumanity of...... middle of paper ...... which is going to be our tool. Frederick Douglass depicted the life of a plantation slave as well as the life of an owned slave in the city and provided insight into the daily lives of slaves of the era. He opens the eyes of many people by telling his story and reveals the inhumane treatment of slaves and how they are people too. Douglass helped lay the foundation for the quest for freedom through his quest for knowledge and the way he ended the tactics of slavery. He realized that knowledge was the key to freedom.GreatestAudioBooks, . No. Internet. .Douglass, Frédéric. Account of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. Boston: Anti-Slavery Bureau, 1845. Fort, Bruce. American Slave Stories: An Online Anthology. AS Hypertext at UVA, March 6 1998. .