Does douglass describe lloyd's plantation and its outlying farms as a microcosm of the larger southern society?

Douglass depicts the slaves on Colonel Lloyd's huge manor as living in dread of beatings and different types of physical manhandle. He is a kid, yet he saw more established slaves whipped for even exceptionally minor offenses. Work on the manor was burdensome, and slaves were for the most part provided with just extremely minimum essentials for survival. Notwithstanding rural work, the slaves likewise did a wide range of gifted specialists, including "shoemaking and repairing, the blacksmithing, cartwrighting, coopering, weaving, and grain-pounding." The slaves had distinctive regulators, one of which, Mr. Serious, was extremely pitiless and practically cruel, beating slave moms before their kids. The entire manor was keep running in an extremely professional manner, and slaves had a tendency to separate among themselves in light of the division of work on the homestead.