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1 I fell, and with this they all ran upon me, and fell to beating me with their fists.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER X
2 The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER I
3 It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER I
4 While I was attending to those in front, and on either side, the one behind ran up with the handspike, and struck me a heavy blow upon the head.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER X
5 He had given Demby but few stripes, when, to get rid of the scourging, he ran and plunged himself into a creek, and stood there at the depth of his shoulders, refusing to come out.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER IV
6 I reached Covey's about nine o'clock; and just as I was getting over the fence that divided Mrs. Kemp's fields from ours, out ran Covey with his cowskin, to give me another whipping.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER X
7 If a slave ran away and succeeded in getting clear, or if a slave killed his master, set fire to a barn, or did any thing very wrong in the mind of a slaveholder, it was spoken of as the fruit of abolition.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER VII
8 While down in this situation, Mr. Covey took up the hickory slat with which Hughes had been striking off the half-bushel measure, and with it gave me a heavy blow upon the head, making a large wound, and the blood ran freely; and with this again told me to get up.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER X