Hopkins, Gore has all the qualities of a first-rate overseer: ambition, discipline, and workmanlike severity. Lucretia Auld and Master Daniel Lloyd, Colonel Lloyd's son. Douglass spends a part of his childhood at the Great House Farm running errands for Ms.
Colonel Lloyd owns so many slaves that he does not know them all and they all do not know him. Slaves from the surrounding farms consider it the highest honor to serve in the Great House Farm.
He lives in a place called the Great House Farm, where all transactions take place. After Douglass's unsuccessful attempt to escape, Captain Auld sends him back to his brother Hugh in Baltimore.Ĭolonel Lloyd: A rich landowner in Talbot County, he owns about four hundred slaves in more than twenty farms. However, Douglass sees no change in his depraved nature and considers him a religious hypocrite. At a religious meeting he 'finds religion' and becomes extremely religious. Captain Thomas Auld is an incompetent slaveholder who has neither the ability nor courage to hold slaves. Lucretia's death, Thomas has a falling out with his brother and takes Douglass back to live with him at St. Lucretia's husband, young Douglass is sent to Baltimore to live with Captain Thomas Auld's brother, Hugh Auld. When Captain Anthony passes away, Douglass is taken into the possession of Mrs.
Douglass's first horrifying experience of slavery is when Captain Anthony whips his Aunt Hester. Captain Anthony has two sons, Andrew and Richard and one daughter, Lucretia. He is the superintendent for the rich landowner, Colonel Lloyd. Through many trials and ordeals, Douglass goes from a slave boy on a Southern plantation to the greatest ex-slave orator of the abolitionist movement.Ĭaptain Anthony: Frederick Douglass's master and rumored to be his father, he is a small-time slaveholder with three farms and about thirty slaves. His father is rumored to be a white man, perhaps even his first master, Captain Anthony. His narrative is a first-hand, eyewitness account of his experiences as a slave. Writing as an abolitionist, he decries the practice of slavery and depicts the dehumanizing effects of slavery on both the slaves and the slaveholders. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Major Charactersįrederick Douglass: Author of the narrative, he recounts the journey from his days in slavery to his eventual escape to freedom.
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