Sections 1 I had left Master Thomas’s house, and went to live with Mr. 2 I stopped my oxen to open the woods gate; and just as I did so, before I could get hold of… 3 Covey would be out with us. 4 Mr. 5 Sunday was my only leisure time. 6 “You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! 7 I have already intimated that my condition was much worse, during the first six months of my… 8 Mr. 9 I disregarded both his calls and his threats, and made my way to the woods as fast as my… 10 After threatening me thus, he gave me a very large dose of salts, telling me that I might… 11 I at first rejected the idea, that the simple carrying of a root in my pocket would have any… 12 While he was in the act of doing so, I watched my chance, and gave him a heavy kick close… 13 From this time I was never again what might be called fairly whipped, though I remained a… 14 The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery. 15 On the first of January, 1834, I left Mr. 16 Mr. 17 Mr. 18 I held my Sabbath school at the house of a free colored man, whose name I deem it imprudent… 19 At the close of the year 1834, Mr. 20 Our knowledge of the north did not extend farther than New York; and to go there, and be… 21 The week before our intended start, I wrote several protections, one for each of us. 22 The horn was blown as usual, and we went up from the field to the house for breakfast. 23 During the scuffle, I managed, I know not how, to get my pass out, and, without being… 24 We had been in jail scarcely twenty minutes, when a swarm of slave traders, and agents for… 25 Thus, after an absence of three years and one month, I was once more permitted to return to… 26 This was my school for eight months; and I might have remained there longer, but for a most… 27 I went directly home, and told the story of my wrongs to Master Hugh; and I am happy to say… 28 Master Hugh, finding he could get no redress, refused to let me go back again to Mr.
Start Learning Douglass narrates his year under Edward Covey, known for breaking the will of enslaved people, and the turning point when he physically resisted Covey's violence. He describes the secret Sabbath school he ran afterward, a betrayed escape plan with fellow enslaved men, and his eventual return to Baltimore to work as a ship caulker while his wages were taken by Hugh Auld.
Edward Covey's methods and Douglass's breaking point The fight with Covey as a turning point The secret Sabbath school Douglass ran The betrayed 1836 escape plan Wage labor in the Baltimore shipyards under Hugh Auld
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