The Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass

She had been set that night to mind Mrs. Hicks's baby,

young girl between fifteen and sixteen years of age, mangling her person in the most horrible manner, breaking her nose and breastbone with a stick,

. Thomas Lanman, of St. Michael's, killed two slaves, one of whom he killed with a hatchet, by knocking his brains out.

Demby had become unmanageable. He was setting a dangerous example to the other slaves

It is better that a dozen slaves should suffer under the lash, than that the overseer should be convicted, in the presence of the slaves, of having been at fault."

There must be no answering back to him; no explanation was allowed a slave, showing himself to have been wrongfully accused.

own a thousand slaves,

when they pleased,

Barney, a man between fifty and sixty years of age, uncover his bald head, kneel down upon the cold, damp ground, and receive upon his naked and toil-worn shoulders more than thirty lashes at the time.

whipped, but seemed to take no pleasure in it. He was called by the slaves a good overseer.