Chapters 2, 3, & 4

After reading these three chapters, I am suprised yet not suprised at how cruel their masters were. Reading this makes slavery seem much more real to me. When I have previously learned about slavery, I never imagined what the men and women actually went through, I just heard the words and chose not to visualize them in my mind. Reading something that was written by a slave, makes me understand the graveness of what so many people went through. I am suprised at how well constructed his writing is. Although this text is tragic and depressing, it's very interesting to read. It's important, and not boring. I think that this is such an important peice of writing because many slaves went through the same thing but were unable to write about it because they did not know how. Slaves could have gone through worse things for all we know. It's frusterating to read how inhumane the owners treated their slaves. I don't know how any person could bve so cruel. I don't like what I'm reading, I like the way its written, I think it's a very important text, and I feel terrible for not only Frederick Douglass, but for all the slaves who had to go through this.