“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man”. That quote is one of the most famous lines in the whole book. That quote is about how Frederick Douglass was turned into a slave and broken down and how he had an epiphany. He would realize that he could make himself a free man again and he would soon begin to fight back against Mr. Covey. Douglass would actually beat Covey and Covey would no longer mess with him again.
Mr. Covey would occasionally tell Douglass he didn’t want to get a hold of him but Frederick would say “No, thought I, you need not; for you will come off worse than you did before.” After Covey tried to tie up Douglass and they got in a scuffle, Coey tried to get numerous people to help him beat Douglass but none of them could. They ended up fighting it out for near 2 hours. After this day Covey would no longer miss with Frederick, but he would always say he would. …show more content…
When I carried to him my weekly wages, he would, after counting the money, look me in the face with a robber-like fierceness, and ask, "Is this all?" He was satisfied with nothing less than the last cent. He would, however, when I made him six dollars, sometimes give me six cents, to encourage me. It had the opposite effect. I regarded it as a sort of admission of my right to the whole. The fact that he gave me any part of my wages was proof, to my mind, that he believed me entitled to the whole of them.” Frederick Douglass is talking about how he worked on a shipyard and learned a trade and got payed for it, but had to give his earnings to master Hughes. He believed that if he worked for this and earned his wages that he should be allowed to keep it because master Hughes has no right to take it other than, just because he
Mr. Covey would occasionally tell Douglass he didn’t want to get a hold of him but Frederick would say “No, thought I, you need not; for you will come off worse than you did before.” After Covey tried to tie up Douglass and they got in a scuffle, Coey tried to get numerous people to help him beat Douglass but none of them could. They ended up fighting it out for near 2 hours. After this day Covey would no longer miss with Frederick, but he would always say he would. …show more content…
When I carried to him my weekly wages, he would, after counting the money, look me in the face with a robber-like fierceness, and ask, "Is this all?" He was satisfied with nothing less than the last cent. He would, however, when I made him six dollars, sometimes give me six cents, to encourage me. It had the opposite effect. I regarded it as a sort of admission of my right to the whole. The fact that he gave me any part of my wages was proof, to my mind, that he believed me entitled to the whole of them.” Frederick Douglass is talking about how he worked on a shipyard and learned a trade and got payed for it, but had to give his earnings to master Hughes. He believed that if he worked for this and earned his wages that he should be allowed to keep it because master Hughes has no right to take it other than, just because he