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Life as a Slave
Chapter 15
The Vicissitudes of Slave Life
The deaths of Captain Anthony and his son send Douglass back to the Eastern Shore to be legally appraised and divided among heirs — an experience Douglass calls a fresh insight into slavery's brutality — after which his grandmother is abandoned alone in the woods to die.
Being appraised and divided as property among heirsDread of falling to the cruel Master AndrewHis grandmother Betsey turned out to a hut in the woods to dieReturn to Baltimore under Master Thomas's new wife, Rowena