Well, my life was never what you would call easy. I was born in a slave cabin, near the town of Easton, on the Eastern shore of Maryland. I don't have accurate knowladge of my age, that privlage was not given to me. I didn't have the chance to really get to know my mother because we were seperrated when I was only a few weeks old. My father was a white man, not at all common. Occasionally I would see my mother, but I barely new her so I could not fully express the usual emotions when she later died. during my time as a slave i had two masters. The first master's name was Anthony. The fartm he owned was seen to by an overseer, Mr. Plummer. Mr. Plummer was often drunk, sweared much of the time, and took pleasure in torturing us. it was on this plantation that I first began to see what slavery really was. I was later sent to Baltimore to stay with Hugh and Sophia Auld, who were relatives of my master. It was here that i learnd the alphabet from Sophia Auld. But Mr. Auld soon restrained her from doing teaching me such things. But i wanted to learn more, so i exchanged my food with some of the neighborhood boy, in exchange for lessons. When I was thirteen i bought a copy of
The Columbian Orator, which was a popular school book. I learned many things from reading this book. When I was fifteen I was sent back to the Eastern Shore, and became a field hand for an aweful, brutal man, the slavebraker, Edward Covey. Edward Covey was a very brutal man, who broke many slaves. But Finally I could take no more, and Me and Edward Covey ended up in a draw. But I was victorious, and regained the self-worth that I had lost. After that I was sent back to Baltimore to stay with the Auld family again. It was in September 1838, when I was twenty, that I finally escaped from the dreadful life of Slavery. At last! I went to New Bedford, Massechusetts, and there I married the beautiful Anna Murray. With Anne Murray I began to raise a little family. I went to abolitionist meetings whenever i could. In October 1841 I attened an abolitionist meeting and became a lecturer for the Massechusetts Anti-Slavery Society. I also became great friends with William Lloyd Garrison. Eventually I became a famous public speaker, and writer. I published the North Star, newspaperas, and was part of the first womens rights convention in 1848. I wrote three autobiographies. I soon became a trusted advisor to Abraham Lincoln, a wonderful man if I must say. Finally my life came to an end in Febuary 20th, 1895.
