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Life as a Slave
Chapter 19
The Last Flogging
Sheltered overnight by the enslaved Sandy Jenkins, Douglass returns to Covey and, when attacked, fights back for two hours until Covey gives up — the turning point Douglass calls his ‘resurrection’ into manhood, after which no one whips him again.
Sandy Jenkins and the root charmThe two-hour fight with Covey in the cow yard“You were nothing before; you are a man now”Why Covey never reported the resistance