Chapter 3

1. A slave must never answer a word to Colonel Lloyd's complaints, because it did not matter if the complaints had no basis. The slave was always wrong and the master was always right and to suggest the complaints had no basis was to be insolent or subversive.

2. By saying "such was literally the case" Douglass implies that in other instances he used figurative language to express a point, but this was not a hyperbole.

3. The choice of the word "luxury" reveals that Douglass believed the men thought it a privilege to whip the slaves and that it was something they enjoyed.

4. This anecdote emphasizes how wealthy Colonel Lloyd was.

5. The significance of this manner of speaking is that it is a blatant show of disrespect and superiority of whites over blacks.

6. The truth was that the Colonel Lloyd did not treat his slaves kindly. The penalty was being sold to another slave owner.

7. Both quotes reveal ways in which slaves responded to inquiries about the kindness of their masters; they would either lie and say the masters are kind, or say nothing at all.

8. Douglass measured the kindness of his master by the standard set by all slaveholders.

9. The quote applies to slaves thinking their own slave masters were better than other slave masters.

10. Slaves would defend the greatness of their masters because they believed greatness of their master was transferable to them, and it was "bad enough to be a slave; but to be a poor man's slave was deemed a disgrace."