Discuss two different examples of the abuses of female slaves in Douglass's Narrative.
~Jazmin Kittleson

One type of abuse inflicted upon female slaves quite often would have to be the whip. Women are hung up on a hook by a rope entangled around there hands while standing tip toe on top of a stool. While in this position they are whipped by their masters, the louder the female slave scream and holler, the harder their masters whip them. These female slaves who are whipped are those who do not show up for their duties on time, and those who leave their sleeping accommodations at night and these are only two of the acts which the masters take as disobedience and lash out their whips. The masters whip the female slaves until their bodies are drenched in blood; they whip where the open wounds are the most and up by the head. Another form of abuse inflicted upon the women slaves is lack of food. Each month the slaves are only given a certain amount of food and clothing to last them until the next month, and if a slave is caught doing and of the above actions she can also be sentenced to starvation and have no food for long periods of time. These two types of abuse are inflicted upon both male and female slaves, but males are more likely to be starved and women are more likely to be whipped.