On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
Starvation made me glad to leave Thomas Auld’s, and the cruel lash made me dread to go to Covey’s.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Starvation made me glad to leave Thomas Auld’s, and the cruel lash made me dread to go to Covey’s.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass articulates the desperate paradox of his situation, where starvation drove him from one enslaver while the threat of the lash filled him with dread for the next.
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