Edward Covey

William Freeland was the master with whom Douglass lived after Mr. Covey, and he could not have been more different. Mr. Freeland was educated and allowed his slaves time to eat and rest. Douglass said it himself that Mr. Freeland not practicing religion was a major benefit to his slaves because he was less abusive than…

of certain characters such as Thomas Auld, whom cruelty exacerbated after Methodist camp training, and the infamous antagonist Edward Covey. Specifically, in Chapter 10, Douglass reprimanded his overseer at the time, Edward Covey, “I do verily believe that he sometimes deceived himself into the solemn belief, that he was a sincere worshipper of the most high God”. Covey garnered the notorious reputation of breaking young negroes, harshly whipping for surface reasons (e.g. discomfiture), while…

slave woman and a white man. He disobeyed the ban of reading and learned it from the white kids that went to school and his slaveholder's wife taught him the alphabet. He began to live with another owner and this one was much harsher. The owner, Edward Covey would abuse Douglass’s back to the point where it became permanent damage. When there was a physical confrontation and Douglass…

Baltimore, Douglass got a glimpse of Education and a future. After spending many years in Baltimore, Douglass was sent back to his home town where he had to work for a notoriously brutal slave breaker named Edward Covey. Douglass had to endure many brutal beatings and whippings by the hands of Edward Covey. Fortunately, Douglass became an independent and pragmatic thinker, despite his hardships, and helped inspire many African American slaves. “Frederick Douglass, whose writings and orations…

that their economic freedom as well as personal freedom rested well on slavery and how many slaves they had. Since slavery was all non-profit, slave-owners had to keep close eye on their slaves if they were to pull anything like Douglass had with Covey. Whites during this period heavily defended the slavery system because it provided them white superiority where they took comfort in being equally wealthy to their neighbors and found controlling blacks to be very effective. They believed that…

down the blow… I caught his uplifted arm… seized him by the throat… We stood looking eachother in the eyes. In his I could see murder” (91). As for Northup, his first brawl with his aforementioned master, Covey, was his last. Northup stated, “The whole six months afterwards, that I spent with Mr. Covey, he never laid the weight of his finger upon me in anger. He would occasionally say, he didn’t want to get hold of me again. ‘No,’ thought I, ‘you need not; for you will come off much worse than…

February 1818. Douglass was separated from his mother in childhood and raised by his grandmother in a home of his master, Captain Aaron Anthony. His childhood was quite happy until he was transported to the plantation of Anthony’s employer, Colonel Edward Lloyd. In 1825, Douglass was again transported, this time to the Baltimore home of Hugh Auld. Mr. Auld wife Sophia was from the Northern side, so she didn’t believe in the slavery. Eventually, she started teaching Douglass how to read and write…

Reverse Slavery The universal concept of the term slavery is that there’s an individual or a group of people that are owned by another person. This broad description of slavery became the prototype description of the enslavement of Africans in the United Sates during the sixteenth-century through the late eighteenth-century. However, a simple description of slavery does not do the term justice because it’s much more complex than the ownership of another person. Slavery is a term that is fluid,…

In what ways does Douglass demonstrate his courage? How is courage a defining element of the human spirit? Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) Frederick Douglass stood atal a podium, overtaken with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time, Douglass overcame, found his courage and gave a speech about his life as a slave. Douglass would continue to give speeches for the rest of his life and would become a…

Frederick Douglass, who was named Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was born into slavery, but would become one of the greatest civil rights activists in American history. He was the son of a slave named Harriet Bailey and a caucasian man who he never knew. He was born in February of 1817 in Talbot County, Maryland. Douglass was one of the most important abolitionist in the United States. After he escaped slavery, he wrote an autobiography titled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass…