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the author and narrator of the Narrative. He is a rhetorically skilled and spirited man and a powerful orator for the abolitionist movement. One of his reasons for writing the Narrative is to offer proof to critics who felt that such an articulate and intelligent man could not have once been a slave. The Narrative describes his experience under slavery from his early childhood until his escape North at the age of twenty. Within that time, he progresses from unenlightened victim of the dehumanizi - Answer Frederick Douglass Douglass's first master and probably his father; is the clerk for Colonel Lloyd, managing Lloyd's surrounding plantations and the overseers of those plantations. He is a cruel man who takes pleasure in whipping his slaves, especially Douglass's Aunt Hester. He is called "Captain" because he once piloted ships up the Chesapeake Bay. - Answer Captain Anthony Captain Anthony's boss and Douglass's first owner. He is an extremely rich man who owns all of the slaves and lands where Douglass grows up. He insists on extreme subservience from his slaves and often punishes them unjustly. - Answer Colonel Edward Lloyd Captain Anthony's daughter and Thomas Auld's wife. After Captain Anthony's death, she inherits half his property, including Douglass. She is as cruel an owner as her husband. - Answer Lucretia Auld Lucretia Auld's husband and Hugh Auld's brother. He did not grow up owning slaves, but gained them through his marriage to Lucretia. After attending a church meeting in Maryland, he becomes a "pious" man, but he uses his newfound Christianity to be even more self-righteously brutal toward his slaves. - Answer Captain Thomas Auld Thomas Auld's brother and Douglass's occasional master. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, Sophia. Thomas and Lucretia Auld allow him to borrow Douglass as a servant for his son, Thomas. He is well aware that whites maintain power over blacks by depriving them of education, and he unwittingly enlightens Douglass in this matter. He is not as cruel as his brother Thomas, but he becomes harsher due to a drinking habit in his later years. He seems to suffer some consciousness that slavery and the - Answer Hugh AuldHugh Auld's wife; was a working woman before marrying Hugh, and she had never owned slaves. The corruption of owning a slave transforms her from a sympathetic, kind woman into a vengeful monster. - Answer Sophia Auld notorious slave "breaker" and Douglass's keeper for one year. Slave owners send their unruly slaves to him, who works and punishes them (thus getting free labor to cultivate his rented land) and returns them trained and docile. His tactics as a slaveholder are both cruel and sneaky. He is deliberately deceptive and devious when interacting with his slaves, creating an atmosphere of constant surveillance and fear. - Answer Edward Covey