His three stories are very violent. In his story, the slave woman becomes a symbol of suffering. When she was a young child, her mother was sold to another master. His father was a white slave owner. Everything that happened to her mother was out of her control. Douglass's birth was the result of rape and her death was the result of the suffering she endured. This example of lifelong misfortune was followed by the account of the brutal beatings her aunt endured. Douglass describes his master's inhumane actions and how he only stopped whipping him when he was tired, ignoring his cries: "the louder she cried, the harder he whipped (Douglass 354). » Douglass witnessed these horrible sights at a very advanced age. This shaped this perception of black women in a negative light. From childhood, it was believed that a slave knows nothing in her life other than suffering. Another horrific account that Douglass gives in his story is the story of Mary and Henrietta. It seems like each story is more horrific than the last. Douglass writes about this horrific situation in great detail, explaining how "of all the mutilated and emaciated creatures [he] ever looked upon, these two were the most so (371)." This example shows how dehumanized slave women were. They were considered commodities and not humans. This situation also shows how bad slavery was for white women, as it was the master's wife who whipped these two.