I had now lived with him nearly nine months, and he had given me a number of severe whippings, without any visible improvement in my character, or my conduct; and now he was resolved to put me out—as he said—“to be broken.
Douglass recounts the severe punishments he endured, illustrating the brutal methods used to control enslaved individuals.
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