American Literature / Unit 9 AML 0807 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Fight With Covey
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The idea
Hired out to Edward Covey, a notorious slave-breaker, Douglass was whipped daily for months until he fought back in a two-hour struggle, after which the beatings stopped. He presents the fight as the moment a slave in form became a man in fact, and the book turns there.
In practice
Two hours, and the whippings stopped.
Where people slip
The pivot of the book, not its end.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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