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Appendix
Letter to His Old Master
To My Old Master, Thomas Auld
Written on the tenth anniversary of his escape, Douglass addresses Thomas Auld directly — recounting his reasoning for running away, his new life and family, and demanding word of his enslaved sisters and his grandmother, left to die alone in the woods.
Douglass's direct address to his former ownerThe moral argument for the right to escapeNews sought of his sisters and grandmotherContrast between his freeman's household and his years of bondage