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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Narrated by Geoffrey Giuliano, The Icon Players
Frederick DouglassUnabridged — 22 hours, 37 minutes
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Narrated by Geoffrey Giuliano, The Icon Players
Frederick DouglassUnabridged — 22 hours, 37 minutes
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Overview
Edited by Macc Kay
Production executive Avalon Giuliano
ICON Intern Eden Giuliano
Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission
©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret Giuliano
Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has wri
tten and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well known movie actor.
Product Details
BN ID: | 2940177864983 |
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Publisher: | Author's Republic |
Publication date: | 07/15/2020 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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CHAPTER III. TROUBLES OF CHILDHOOD. Col. Lloyd's plantationAunt KatyHer cruelty and ill-natureCapt. Anthony's partiality to Aunt KatyAllowance of foodHungerUnexpected rescue by his motherThe reproof of Aunt KatySleepA slave - mother's loveHis inheritanceHis mother's acquirementsHer death. ONCE established on the home plantation of Col. LloydI was with the children there, left to the tender mercies of Aunt Katy, a slave woman who was to my master, what he was to Col. Lloyd. Disposing of us in classes or sizes, he left to Aunt Katy all the minor details concerning our management. She was a woman who never allowed herself to act greatly within the limits of delegated power, no matter how broad that authority might be. Ambitious of old master's favour, ill-tempered and cruel by nature, she found in her present position an ample field for the exercise of her ill-omened qualities. She had a strong hold upon old master, for she was a first-rate cook, and very industrious. She was therefore greatly favoured by himand as one mark of his favour she was the only mother who was permitted to retain her children around her, and even to these, her own children, she was often fiendish in her brutality. Cruel, however, as she sometimes was to her own children, she was not destitute of maternal feeling, and in her instinct to satisfy their demands for food, she was often guilty of starving me and the other children. Want of food was my chief trouble during my first summer here. Captain Anthony, instead of allowing a given quantity of food to each slave, committed the allowance for all to Aunt Katy, to be divided byher, after cooking, amongst us. The allowance consisted of coarse corn meal, not very abundant, and which by passing through Aunt Katy's hands, became more slender s...
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