One of the most notable of Fredericks experiences while in St. Michaels was learning to deal with many occasions of suffering from hunger.

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There was no excuse for it, the Aulds had food aplenty and would provide it in abundance for their many guests to their home while depriving their enslaved.

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It is also during his time in St. Michaels that Frederick becomes cognisant of the role in which religion plays in the white ruling community, using various tracts of the scriptures to justify their wanton acts of cruelty and thus absolving them of any guilt hate might feel upon perpetrating them.

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This religious hypocrisy would wrangle with Frederick through most of his life, taking on the Scottish Presbyterian Church during his time in Scotland in 1846 and demanding that they return the monies that Southern Plantation owners had bestowed upon them in the years before.

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It’s a subject that is still being discussed in this present day as many organisations begin to look into their past investment in the Slave Trade and it’s consequences.