In this brief passage by Frederick Douglass, called Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he describes prime examples of a pure Machiavellian. Douglass gives us insight on Mrs. Hamilton, a slave owner, who just like Machiavelli explains in The Qualities of the Prince shows us what exactly Machiavelli was talking about. Mrs. Hamilton is cruel to her slaves in order to keep them loyal and is never peaceful during idle times in order to keep her slaves at her advantage. Douglass's encounters with Mrs. Hamilton again show us exactly how Machiavelli wanted a leader to control the people and with this Douglass shows us how Mrs. Hamilton being the leader, controls the slaves which are her subjects.
             When Frederick Douglass first introduces us to Mrs. Hamilton he gives us a well-developed visual on how she treated her slaves. Mrs. Hamilton would sit in the middle of the room in a large chair with a heavy cow skin by her side. She would then whip the slaves, as they would pass by her while she yelled at them, and called them names. Mrs. Hamilton would also call Mary "pecked" than by her name. I see this type of treatment as full Machiavellian from Mrs. Hamilton. Machiavelli in his work The Qualities of a Prince suggests to leader that they should be cruel to their subjects in order to keep them loyal. I sense that by what Mrs. Hamilton was doing to her slaves may be looked at from a different way than by just plain cruel. It shows to me that she was just keeping her slaves loyal to her by whipping them and calling them names. And this to me shows that she took an approach using a structured Machiavellian style. If Mrs. Hamilton did not exercise this type of treatment to her slaves they would probably feel that if they decided to escape for freedom to the North, Mrs. Hamilton would not have punished them for it and let them to free.
             Mrs. Hamilton also uses another one of Machiavelli's suggestions. M
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