My Bondage and My Freedom, Chapter 13: samenvatting

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1. After Richard and Capt. Anthony die, the estate’s enslaved people face appraisal and division between Andrew and Lucretia.
2. Fred fears Andrew, who brutally attacks Perry, but is assigned to Mrs. Lucretia and returns to Baltimore.
3. Lucretia and Andrew die; Fred describes his aging grandmother’s abandonment in an isolated woodland hut.
4. After remarrying, Thomas quarrels with Hugh over Henny’s return and orders Fred to St. Michael’s.
5. Fred regrets leaving his pupils, teachers, and Lawson, although Hugh’s household no longer offers its former kindness.
6. While traveling down Chesapeake Bay, Fred watches steamers bound between Baltimore and Philadelphia and forms an escape plan.

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The appraisal sharpens his understanding of slavery’s power. His personal fear becomes an explicit judgment against a system that treats people as transferable possessions.

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