Chapter 1 Reaction

          My reaction to chapter one is that it was sad to hear about his life. Not knowing what your real birthday is or how old you really are is not really a good thing. Also he only saw his mother a few times and when he did it was at night for only a short amount of time. Not only having no mother he didnt have a father, so his new parents were his masters. He talked about how he would hear at night the beatings of his old aunt by one of his masters and how horrible the sounds were and how she looked after. Though out the story he was talking about mainly how hard his life was as a slave and what he had to do while he was a slave. Overall, this was a depressing and sad story about Frederick Douglass.