Frederick Douglass: The Battle With Mr. Covey

Frederick Douglass, was a slave during the 18th century. He first learned to read and write when he was 12 by a slave masters wife. He later became a leader in the abolitionist movement. But Frederick didn’t have a good life. From the time he was born till he escaped at 20 years old, he was a slave. When Frederick was real young he was separated from his parents and they changed his name to Harriet Bailey. Frederick was one brave slave, as documented by one time that he stood up to a slave owner called Mr. Covey. In the Battle with Mr. Covey, Frederick Douglass learned through his experience that although he was physically enchained and enslaved, that mentally, he was free. Frederick Douglass gained intelligence through his conflict with Mr. Covey, That the slaves were brainwashed to think that had to be slaves. Although they were slaves they could still learn how to read and write. He should through the conflict with Covey that nobody meanly owned. He showed the other slaves that they didn’t have to be whipped just so the owners could feel good about themselves. He showed that slaves were physically stronger that their owners. After that day that him and Covey get into it. Mr. Covey never laid a hand on Douglass. Douglass was someone that they slaves could look up to. …show more content…
Mr. Covey could’ve killed Douglass for what he did to him. But instead Mr. Covey respected Douglass because he knew that Douglass could overtake him any time he wanted to. Douglass had all the right to do what he did, cause Covey was about to whip him just to show him the he had ownership over him. Covey was trying to make Douglass feel like he was not a human being, that he was just a workhorse for him. But Douglass learned at a young age how to read and write by a slave owners wife. He learned that it wasn’t right what all of the slave masters were doing to the slave making them feel like they couldn’t be