DOUGLASS WRITING ee Douglass explained that it was violence. Slavery was terrible because when Fredrick Douglass fell and Mr. Covey came and gave Fredrick Douglass a savage kick on the side and Mr. Covey told Fredrick Douglass to stand up and Mr. Covey gave him another kick to rise up. Captain Anthony at the time seems to have a great pleasure in whipping a slave. Fredrick aunt was the slave that Captain Anthony was whipping. With her naked back latterly until it was all bloody. Douglass explained that working conditions is bad. People had to work all types of weathers and it was too hot or too cold for them. Some of the slaves job where to do fanning wheat. Fredrick Douglass tried to stop working because all of those extreme dizziness. Evan though there were all those sickness he still had to work. Fredrick Douglass wrote this story because he wanted us to know how slavery was terrible. It also talks about ho violence and working conditions were bad. So this is some of the part that Fredrick Douglass explained.