Book Excerpt: ...instances of murderous cruelty, --in one of which a planter deliberately shot a slave belonging to a neighboring plantation, who had unintentionally gotten within his lordly domain in quest of fish; and in the other, an overseer blew out the brains of a slave who had fled to a stream of water to escape a bloody scourging. Mr. DOUGLASS states that in neither of these instances was any thing done by way of legal arrest or judicial investigation. The Baltimore American, of March 17, 1845, relates a similar case of atrocity, perpetrated with similar impunity--as follows: --"_Shooting a slave._--We learn, upon the authority of a letter from Charles county, Maryland, received by a gentleman of this city, that a young man, named Matthews, a nephew of General Matthews, and whose father, it is believed, holds an office at Washington, killed one of the slaves upon his father's farm by shooting him. The letter states that young Matthews had been left in charge of the farm; that he gave an order to the servant.
Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Simon & Brown
Published: 12/19/2011
Pages: 102
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9781613827291
Accelerated Reader: Reading Level: 7.9
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 76092 / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
