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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass with Dr. Anika Prather

The Classical Mind

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The Dehumanization of the One Woman

Gloria Borger: He gives some, I think, really graphic depictions of beatings. But he also talks about his master Thomas Ald, who wouldn't give his slaves enough food. She says that was viewed even as cruel by the other slave owners and Maryland at the time. "We're all subjected to the same narrow examination," Kovey writes.

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