# Colonel Edward Lloyd — Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass character guide

> Colonel Edward Lloyd in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Colonel Lloyd, Lloyd, Colonel Edward Lloyd

**First appearance:** 0005-iii

## Snapshot

A planter of near-biblical wealth who owns so many slaves he cannot recognize them, and sells any man who tells the truth about him.

## Who they are

Colonel Edward Lloyd presides over the Great House Farm with a thousand enslaved people and a household of sons and sons-in-law who whip servants for sport. When a slave honestly answers Lloyd's roadside questions about his treatment, the man is chained and sold to a Georgia trader without warning. Lloyd's casual power shows how slavery turns ordinary conversation into a death sentence.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/narrative_of_the_life_of_frederick_douglass_se/chapters/ii)

Owner of the home plantation and numerous farms; his property is the central setting of the chapter.

### [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/narrative_of_the_life_of_frederick_douglass_se/chapters/iii)

The wealthy and powerful slaveholder who owns a thousand slaves and rules his plantation with absolute authority, punishing slaves for trivial offenses.

### [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/narrative_of_the_life_of_frederick_douglass_se/chapters/iv)

Owner of the plantation; questioned Mr. Gore about the murder of Demby but took no action.

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