On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
Covey was to break me, I was to break them; break and be broken—such is life.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Covey was to break me, I was to break them; break and be broken—such is life.”
Editor's note · Context
In his autobiography, Douglass describes the brutal system of slavery where both enslaved people and animals were subjected to a process of "breaking" by their masters.
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