He meets Douglass when Douglass is persuaded to tell his history at an abolitionist convention in Nantucket in 1841. William Lloyd Garrison Founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He is well informed on national politics and keeps a nice household.

Johnson is immediately kind and helpful to the Douglasses, loaning them money, helping Douglass find work, and suggesting Douglass's new name. Nathan Johnson A Massachusetts worker and abolitionist.

After his escape, she and Douglass marry in New York and then move to New Bedford, Massachusetts. She is a free black woman from Baltimore who becomes engaged to Douglass before he escapes to freedom. His shipyard is disorderly with racial tension between free-black carpenters and white carpenters, and he is under pressure to complete several ships for a deadline. Hugh Auld sends Douglass to him to learn the trade of caulking. He sometimes takes charge of Douglass, as when He arrests Douglass for plotting to escape from Freeland. After Lucretia Auld's death, Thomas remarries his oldest daughter. Douglass acknowledges his exceptional fairness with a pun on his name-'free land.' William Hamilton Father-in-law of Thomas Auld. He is the most fair and straightforward of all Douglass's masters and is not hypocritically pious.

William Freeland Douglass's keeper for two years following his time with Covey. She is kind to Douglass when Douglass runs away from Covey's, but the Narrative also implies that she may have informed William Freeland about Douglass's plans to escape. Highly superstitious, she stands in the Narrative as a representative of all uneducated, superstitious slaves. Sandy Jenkins A slave acquaintance of Douglass. She is separated from Douglass after his birth, but she still attempts to maintain family relations by walking twelve miles to see him at night.

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