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1  Mr. Covey was a poor man, a farm-renter.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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2  Mr. Covey had acquired a very high reputation for breaking young slaves, and this reputation was of immense value to him.
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3  He resolved to put me out, as he said, to be broken; and, for this purpose, he let me for one year to a man named Edward Covey.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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4  The details of this affair are as follows: Mr. 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 Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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5  Some slaveholders thought it not much loss to allow Mr. Covey to have their slaves one year, for the sake of the training to which they were subjected, without any other compensation.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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6  I had been at my new home but one week before 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.
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