narrative of the life of frederick douglass

After his year at Covey's farm is over, Douglass gets hired out to a new master, Mr.Douglass then makes a vow that he will sooner die than be whipped again.

After a long confrontation, Covey retreats and never whips him again.

One day, Douglass decides he has nothing to lose, and when Covey tries to whip him, he fights back.

He sees the ships sailing free and delivers a big emotional speech about freedom.

He has an epiphany while watching some ships sailing on the Chesapeake Bay.

After six months of regular beatings and back-breaking work as a field hand, Douglass tells us that his spirit is broken.

But Covey has a reputation as a slave-breaker, and he immediately sets to work 'breaking' Douglass.

At first Douglass is optimistic and thinks he might finally get enough to eat.

When Douglass argues with Master Thomas, Thomas gets fed up and sends him to work for a year for a farmer named Covey.

Douglass wishes he had taken the opportunity to escape while he was still in Baltimore.

Master Thomas is a terrible master, who doesn't feed his slaves nearly enough.

But he doesn't get to stay there long before he is sent back to work for Master Thomas in the countryside.

Douglass is one of the lucky ones he gets sent back to Baltimore.

All of his grandmother's children are taken away from her, and since she is quite old, she is sent off into the woods to die.Families are separated and many slaves are sent away from the only home they've ever known. This is a traumatic event for everyone involved.When Colonel Lloyd dies, Douglass has to return to the plantation in Maryland, while the lawyers decide how the inheritance will be divided up.He continues to learn to read when his master isn't around, mostly by making friends with white children who haven't yet learned to treat him badly.Auld makes her stop, Douglass learns an invaluable lesson: education must be a powerful thing! Auld starts to teach him to read, but when Mr. When Douglass is about seven, something good finally happens: he is sent to Baltimore to work for a new master, Mr.Hopkins is replaced by a really, really bad overseer, Mr. Severe, is replaced by a kind of bad overseer, Mr. When he's slightly older, a really bad overseer, Mr.He is traumatized by seeing his Aunt Hester beaten badly by her master.Then again, he's only met her a handful of times. When his mother dies, he isn't allowed to go to her funeral.As he recounts his childhood in the first few chapters, his memories range from the just kind of bad to the really bad.

Douglass is born a slave on Colonel Lloyd's plantation in Maryland.

Narrative of the life of frederick douglass