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Life as a Slave
Chapter 16
Experience in St. Michael’s
Under the stingy Thomas Auld, Douglass goes hungry for the first time in years, watches Auld's religious conversion fail to soften him, and sees his makeshift Sabbath school broken up by an armed mob of ‘Christian’ class leaders — ending with his transfer to the notorious ‘negro-breaker’ Edward Covey.
Thomas Auld's stinginess and religious conversionThe moral argument that a slave stealing food is not really stealingThe Sabbath school broken up by a mobBeing sent to Edward Covey ‘to be broken’