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My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass · 1855 primary

passage 118 of 254 · CHAPTER I. *Childhood* > CHAPTER XVI. *Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice* (5/5)

in brief
Douglass closes by saying the next chapter will describe his partial “disenthrallment” from Covey’s tyranny and the marked change it brings.

and brutality. These men literally “bind heavy burdens, grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they, themselves, will not move them with one of their fingers.”

My kind readers shall have, in the next chapter—what they were led, perhaps, to expect to find in this—namely: an account of my partial disenthrallment from the tyranny of Covey, and the marked change which it brought about.

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topics: courage and cowardice · fate, destiny, and necessity · slavery and bondage

My Bondage and My Freedom · Frederick Douglass · 1855