In the autobiography written by Frederick Douglass, he provides the reader with details about the daily lives of past American slaves both from his own eyes and from others who kept detailed records that they witnessed or experienced. Douglass describes firsthand what he witnessed and his insight into personal experiences from being a slave to becoming a free man. Except deep down he was never truly a free man, he was a fugitive who risked everything he had worked for and if he were ever caught he could be forced to return to his master or be killed for his action. Douglas provided many important details about how slaves were treated in the early United States. It provides great insight into the brutality of how a master treated slaves, “for a slave with knowledge.” Douglass explains in his autobiography how he was unaware of his position as a slave when he was a child, but learned quickly from experience on the plantation where he was raised. He wrote about how he didn't know much about his mother, the masters thought it was ideal to remove the mother from the child as soon as a year after the child was born to remove any attachment to each other so they could serve as better slaves. It also illustrates how he and other slaves lived on a monthly allowance of eight pounds of pork or its equivalent in fish and a bushel of cornmeal. Adults were basically given one dress that would serve its purpose for a year, otherwise they would be without it for the rest of the year. The children were given only two coarse linen shirts, otherwise they would have remained naked for the whole year. Douglas described that he and the other slaves all had something in common: the hard dirt floor on which everyone... middle of paper... looked like a hypocrite. The practice of Christianity was said to be kind, but ultimately they opposed it and treated people of different colors like crap. Those who believed in the idea that they were given certain rights over others which gave them the right to enslave those who were less fortunate. This seemed to be the main cause of conflict where many would suffer for these ideas, but because of people like Fredrick Douglas and others who were not afraid to stand up for what they believed in and caused many clashes between slave owners and freemen who would laid the groundwork to one day end slavery and allow those who were called slaves to join the title of free. Except this wouldn't happen overnight and wouldn't be taken lightly. Even now there are still places in America that segregate people based on skin color.