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1 My resistance was so entirely unexpected that Covey seemed taken all aback.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER X
2 I was yet liable to be taken back, and subjected to all the tortures of slavery.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XI
3 Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER X
4 It was painful to stand near the stable-door, and hear the various complaints against the keepers when a horse was taken out for use.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER III
5 It, however, was not so severe as the one I dreaded at the division of property; for, during this interval, a great change had taken place in Master Hugh and his once kind and affectionate wife.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER VIII
6 She was immediately buried, but had not been in her untimely grave but a few hours before she was taken up and examined by the coroner, who decided that she had come to her death by severe beating.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER IV
7 Frequently, before the child has reached its twelfth month, its mother is taken from it, and hired out on some farm a considerable distance off, and the child is placed under the care of an old woman, too old for field labor.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER I
8 It was for a long time a matter of surprise to me why Mr. Covey did not immediately have me taken by the constable to the whipping-post, and there regularly whipped for the crime of raising my hand against a white man in defence of myself.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER X