I expected every moment that my brains would be dashed out against the trees. I, however, succeeded in getting to the edge of the woods with little difficulty but I had got a very few rods into the woods, when the oxen took fright, and started full tilt, carrying the cart against trees, and over stumps, in the most frightful manner. I had never driven oxen before, and of course I was very awkward. He then tied the end of a large rope around the horns of the in-hand ox, and gave me the other end of it, and told me, if the oxen started to run, that I must hold on upon the rope. He told me which was the in-hand ox, and which the off-hand one. Covey sent me, very early in the morning of one of our coldest days in the month of January, to the woods, to get a load of wood. The details of this affair are as follows: Mr. Covey gave me a very severe whipping, cutting my back, causing the blood to run, and raising ridges on my flesh as large as my little finger. I had been at my new home but one week before Mr. In my new employment, I found myself even more awkward than a country boy appeared to be in a large city. I was now, for the first time in my life, a field hand.
I left Master Thomas’s house, and went to live with Mr. It belongs in the library of anyone interested in African-American history and the life of one of the country's most courageous and influential champions of civil rights.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Chapter X Published in 1845 to quell doubts about his origins - since few slaves of that period could write - the Narrative is admired today for its extraordinary passion, sensitive and vivid descriptions and storytelling power. In this, the first and most frequently read of his three autobiographies, Douglass provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome these obstacles to become a leading spokesman for his people. Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life.
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