Slave owners were expected to treat slaves as something less than human, which prompted slave owners to impose cruel and barbaric reprimands on against slaves. Frederick Douglass argues that slavery manipulates a person's identity, primarily due to social expectations. There were rules and laws to be followed towards slaves; among the main issues, the slaves had no purpose in having the ability to read or write, while Douglass was being tutored by an unsuspecting Mrs. Auld. Douglass's mistress had never owned a slave before Douglass, so Mrs. Auld was unaware of how she should treat a slave. Frederick Douglass recounts how kind and kind-hearted Mrs. Auld was before her husband taught her the “proper” way to treat a slave. "I forced her to rush at me, with the utmost fury, and snatch that newspaper or that book from my hand, with something of the anger and consternation that a traitor is supposed to feel when discovered in a plot by a dangerous spy " (Douglass 101). The system of slavery corrupted the good nature of slave owners because it is an institution based on unnatural values ​​that is only accepted because of the immoral social justifications of this period in American history and