Chapter 10: Standing by the Side of the Chesapeake, Douglass did what?

In Chapter Ten of the autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass is sent to live with Edward Covey. While there, Douglass becomes a field hand for the first time and experiences brutal whippings at Covey's hands. One day he stood on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay and wondered aloud, thinking that the ships upon the water had more freedom than him. In an impassioned speech he lamented this situation he was in. He decided that he would take to the water and finally achieve freedom.