Fight With Covey By Bernard Boxill

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In the reading, “The Fight With Covey”, by Bernard R.Boxill, it explains as to how Douglass who was the slave and Covey being the slave master. Douglass explains that he had an advantage to education knowing how to read and write which gave him an exceptional experience, but him having such qualities made him justify that he could still view

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