Chapter X
'You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.' The two-hour fight with Covey.
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From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Douglass's physical resistance against the slave-breaker Edward Covey is presented as the pivotal moment of his life, the rekindling of his manhood and the psychological end of his enslavement.
Chapter X
It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood... I was a changed being after that fight. I was nothing before; I WAS A MAN NOW.Read in Books4Free →
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