n, by separating him from his slave mother from infancy (Douglass 48). He mentioned that it was common practice in Maryland to separate children from their slave mothers, before they reached their first year (Douglass 48). Those children then were placed under the care of old women, who were too old to perform hard work in the field; at that time Frederick's grandmother took care of him and others (Douglass 48). It was also mentioned that eventually when his grandmother got too old to do anything her new masters sent her into the woods and left her there to die alone (Douglass 92). Douglass did not know exactly why this painful separation happened between his mother and him, but he assumed it was done to destroy the love between him and his mother (Douglass 48). He also mentioned that when his mother was sent to a different master, Mr.Stewart, who lived about twelve miles away from where Douglass lived, she would walk every night on her bare feet to see him, and then before the sunrise she would walk back so that her new master would not whip her (Douglass 48). In addition to that Douglass also stated that children of the slave mothers who's fathers were white, did not get any better privileges from their white masters (Douglass 49). Therefore, many male masters enjoyed the freedom of their sexuality with the slave women, and as a consequence, played a double role as their master and the father of their mulatto children (Douglass 49). Douglass did not know exactly who his father was, but he heard the rumors that his father was his master (Douglass 48). Furthermore, since his early childhood, Douglass began witnessing brutal whippings of his own Aunt Hester, who was often whipped by the overseer Mr. Plummer (Douglass 51). Douglass described Mr. Plummer as a heartless man who would whip his aunt harder if she screamed louder, and he would whip her continuously on her bleeding cuts to make her suffer more pain and bleed extens...