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Life as a Slave
Chapter 4
Removed from My First Home
At about six years old, Douglass is walked twelve miles to Colonel Lloyd's plantation and left there — his first encounter with the terror of ‘Old Master’ and the discovery that his grandmother is gone.
The journey from Tuckahoe to Wye RiverFirst meeting with siblings Perry, Sarah, and ElizaThe realization slavery had made ‘strangers’ of blood relativesGrandmother Betsey's departure