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The life of Frederick Duglass. Edward Covey is a notorious slave "breaker"
and Douglass's keeper for one year. Slave owners send ...
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Edward Covey is a notorious slave "breaker" and Douglass's keeper for one year. Slave owners send their unruly slaves to Covey, who works and punishes them (thus getting free labor to cultivate his rented land) and returns them trained and docile. Covey's tactics as a slaveholder are both cruel and sneaky. He is deliberately deceptive and devious when interacting with his slaves, creating an atmosphere of constant surveillance and fear.
Frederick Douglass is he author and narrator of the Narrative. Douglass, a very skilled and spirited man, is a powerful speaker for the abolitionist movement. One of his reasons for writing the Narrative is to offer proof to critics who felt that such a clear and intelligent man could not have once been a slave. The Narrative describes Douglass's experience under slavery from his early childhood until his escape North at the age of twenty. Within that time, Douglass progresses from unenlightened victim of the dehumanizing practices of slavery to educate and empowered young man. He gains the resources and convictions to escape to the North and wage a political fight against the institution of slavery.
Two of the quotes that I found important where. "The only penalty of telling the truth, of telling the simple truth, in answer to a series of plain questions" (page 23 narrative) what this quote means to me is that no matter what racial segregation will always continue. He was punished for answering truthfully to questions thinking that he might have gotten away easy. Unfortunately it didn't happen. The second important quote is "The whisper that my master was my father" in this quote he is expressing how he feels like he has been working as a slave for an unconsidering long time and has now believed that the whisper of his master is his father.
Frederick Douglass the most successful abolitionist who changed America's views of slavery through his writings and actions. Frederick...
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