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Slaves deal with deceiving people. In the mind of a slave, it is normally to be cautious of everyone. If a slave is not cautious they might get returned back or be punished for trying to escape.

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The motto which I adopted when I started from slavery was this-"Trust no man!" I saw in every white man an enemy, and in almost every colored man cause for distrust (Douglass 106).

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Slaveholders used religion to cover up the brutal treatments of slaves,  but some slaves mentally know the purpose of the religion. They called the slaveholders hypocrites for using religion to mentally deceive freedom.

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I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes-a justifier of the most appalling barbarity,-a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds,- and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection (Douglass 78-79).

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Once the grandmother is no use to the slaveholder, she would be sent to the woods to live and die alone. She mentally suffers knowing that she left her children in the hands of a slaveholder.

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She stands-she sits-she staggers-she falls-she groans-she dies- and there are none of her children or grandchildren present, to wipe from her wrinkled brow the cold sweat of death, or to place beneath the sod her fallen remains (Douglass 51).

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Songs sung by slaves hold the suffering experienced by them. Songs are created for a mental escape and expression of their suffering.

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The punishments of slaves have created a desire in the mind to be dead rather than live in the brutal hands of a slaveholder.

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The song of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears (Douglass 15).

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I often myself regretting my own existence, and wishing myself dead; and but for the hope of being free, I have no doubt but that I should have killed myself, or done something for which I should have been killed (Douglass 42).