how do the master's treatment of the slaves, as depicted in chapter 1, affect Douglass?

Douglas was discovering details about slavery that would later, not in Ch 1, define his viewpoints. Slave children always followed the condition of their mother, a fact Douglass noted was no doubt due to slaveowners' pernicious lustful designs upon slave women. Children born from slave mothers and white fathers – mulattos – experienced far more difficulties than did other children. They must always fear the wrath of the slaveowner's wife; their presence was a constant reminder of her husband's infidelity. The slaveowner himself must watch his white sons abuse their black brothers. It is actually best if he sells these children to another slaveholder.