The Comparison and Contrasting of the Masters of Fredrick Douglass In the Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass (1845) ,there are many masters that own and regulate his activities. Some masters were very cruel and unusual. One individual master even gets into a pure out fight with Douglass. Douglass did gain a little more freedom from this fight with his master. Even though Fredrick Douglass had many masters who denied his freedom, he became his own master at the end. Douglass’s first master Captain Anthony may have been his father. Captain Anthony was not considered a rich slave owner. He owned about thirty slaves an