Thomas Auld decides to send Frederick to a Slave Breaker…

Life with Thomas Auld is difficult. Frederick is now a teenager and his truculence riles Thomas so much that he decides he needs ‘’breaking’.

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Within the enslaved environment on plantations there was typically an individual whose ruthless and callous treatment of those in his jurisdiction was such to ensure eventual submission, known as the ‘breaking’ of an individual both in mind and body.

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Thomas Auld decided that Fredericks many years in the city of Baltimore had practically ruined him for life on a plantation and needed to be ‘corrected’.