1 I was seldom free from a sore back.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 2 I tried to do so, but fell back in the attempt.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 3 I look back to those Sundays with an amount of pleasure not to be expressed.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 4 I was yet liable to be taken back, and subjected to all the tortures of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER XI 5 Master Hugh, finding he could get no redress, refused to let me go back again to Mr. Gardner.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 6 It went hard enough with me then, when I could look back to no period at which I had enjoyed a sufficiency.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER IX 7 This woman's back, for weeks, was kept literally raw, made so by the lash of this merciless, religious wretch.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 8 There must be no answering back to him; no explanation was allowed a slave, showing himself to have been wrongfully accused.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER IV 9 Thanks to a kind Providence, I fell to the portion of Mrs. Lucretia, and was sent immediately back to Baltimore, to live again in the family of Master Hugh.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VIII 10 Before he commenced whipping Aunt Hester, he took her into the kitchen, and stripped her from neck to waist, leaving her neck, shoulders, and back, entirely naked.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER I 11 But, from some cause or other, he did not send me to Alabama, but concluded to send me back to Baltimore, to live again with his brother Hugh, and to learn a trade.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 12 I succeeded in getting a considerable distance on my way to the woods, when Covey discovered me, and called after me to come back, threatening what he would do if I did not come.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 13 I have seen Winder make one of the house-servants stand off from him a suitable distance to be touched with the end of his whip, and at every stroke raise great ridges upon his back.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER III 14 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.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 15 I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER I 16 I, of course, kept the vow I made after the fight with Mr. Covey, and struck back again, regardless of consequences; and while I kept them from combining, I succeeded very well; for I could whip the whole of them, taking them separately.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 17 He told me, with great solemnity, I must go back to Covey; but that before I went, I must go with him into another part of the woods, where there was a certain root, which, if I would take some of it with me, carrying it always on my right side, would render it impossible for Mr. Covey, or any other white man, to whip me.
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