[My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass]@TWC D-Link book
My Bondage and My Freedom

CHAPTER IX
1/19

.

_Personal Treatment_.
MISS LUCRETIA--HER KINDNESS--HOW IT WAS MANIFESTED--"IKE"-- A BATTLE WITH HIM--THE CONSEQUENCES THEREOF--MISS LUCRETIA'S BALSAM--BREAD--HOW I OBTAINED IT--BEAMS OF SUNLIGHT AMIDST THE GENERAL DARKNESS--SUFFERING FROM COLD--HOW WE TOOK OUR MEALS--ORDERS TO PREPARE FOR BALTIMORE--OVERJOYED AT THE THOUGHT OF QUITTING THE PLANTATION--EXTRAORDINARY CLEANSING--COUSIN TOM'S VERSION OF BALTIMORE--ARRIVAL THERE--KIND RECEPTION GIVEN ME BY MRS.

SOPHIA AULD--LITTLE TOMMY--MY NEW POSITION--MY NEW DUTIES--A TURNING POINT IN MY HISTORY.
I have nothing cruel or shocking to relate of my own personal experience, while I remained on Col.

Lloyd's plantation, at the home of my old master.

An occasional cuff from Aunt Katy, and a regular whipping from old master, such as any heedless and mischievous boy might get from his father, is all that I can mention of this sort.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books