This was my first required reading for the first semester of my sophomore year of college in my class, Political and Social Thought, and my second time reading the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the first time being in middle school on my own time. From brazen acts of vicious cruelty such as beating slaves to half-death or abandoning an elderly enslaved mother after decades of birthing children abused for decades by the slave-holders, as well as the power to "shut up [enslaved persons] in mental darkness" (75) by associating liberty with an overindulgent hangover from alcohol. Interestingly enough, Douglass also depicts slavery as an evil unleashed onto the oppressed and oppressor alike: Sohpie Auld, who is introduced as a gentle young white lady transforms into a master who abuses those she legally owns as much as her husband does (28). Injustice appears to harms both sides of marginalized interactions.