Slavery was a negative thing for the whole of American society; Men, women, and families alike. No one person or sex was worse off than the other. Slavery was a horrible monstrosity for mankind. What I am about to tell you was found in the personal narrative of Frederick Douglass. Douglass has first hand knowledge of these unethical crimes against the black race since he himself was a slave owned by many different masters. Douglass is a very credible foundation for knowledge when it comes to slavery and the mistreating of slaves.
             In his autobiography, "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass", an American slave, Douglass shows that a strict and unfair set of rules was used to enslave black men and women and their families in the 19th Century. Douglass explains that most slave owners didn't take pity on any preferred sex. Women didn't get any pardons when it came to getting whipped for not doing day to day duties, and sometimes just talking, or looking out of place. He also stated that there was one master in particular that he remembered very vividly. A Mr. Plummer, who Frederick claimed to be a "miserable drunkard", would always be armed with a cowskin and a heavy cudgel and took delight in whipping men and women until they screamed, and then was invigorated by the screams and kept going until he, himself, grew tired from the beating. So neither men nor women were safe from violent whippings.
             Families weren't safe from these regulations either. As Frederick also pointed out, "it was a common custom, to part children from their mothers at a very early age. Frequently, before the child has reached its twelfth month." This is a very unnerving thought. He went on to say that this technique was used to erase all forms of affection between mothers and children, making them sort of like cattle. Black men, women and their familie
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