Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

How did Douglass come to work for mr. Covey

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Master Thomas sent Douglass to Covey in order to break him.

Master Thomas at length said he would stand it no longer. I had lived with him nine months, during which time he had given me a number of severe whippings, all to no good purpose. He resolved to put me out, as he said, to be broken; and, for this purpose, he let me for one year to a man named Edward Covey. Mr. Covey was a poor man, a farm-renter. He rented the place upon which he lived, as also the hands with which he tilled it. Mr. Covey had acquired a very high reputation for breaking young slaves, and this reputation was of immense value to him.

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass