Frederick's mother walked twelve miles from a nearby mansion to see him. She just went for evening walks so she could hide and return to her ranch at first light so she wouldn't be whipped. Frederick watched as his lord whipped his Aunt Hester. It depicts the blood and mad rage of the beatings in gruesome detail. You can tell how traumatic the event was by the way he describes it, giving us a picture through the eyes of an alarmed and excessively innocent guy, making it impossible to understand what was happening. It was a defining moment for Frédéric, since it was the end of blamelessness. As a much more established author, Douglass remembers the whipping and wonders if there wasn't something sexual about the way the supervisor undressed his Aunt Hester before whipping her. His wrongdoing had been to invest energy with a slave from another ranch, and the expert seems somewhat