es even lower than the animals he stood beside. His worth was calculated by his youth, his strength and what he could possibly bring money wise was he to be sold.
             Through out the book Frederick Douglass describes in what many may consider to be of a graphic nature the many ways in which a slave might be punished for being disobedient to his master or his master's overseer. One particular incidence, which stands out to me is the treatment of his cousin Henny who was born with a physical deformity. In describing this incidence, he begins by saying " I have no extraordinary personal hard usage toward myself to complain of, but I have seen him tie up the lamed and maimed woman and whip her in a manner most brutal and shocking."
             Henny would be tied up for three, four and five hours at a time. Their master would tie her up early in the morning whip her with a cow-skin before breakfast; leave her tied up; go to his store and returning to his dinner repeat his previous displays of inhumanity. Laying on lash after lash on flesh already made
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