Frederick Douglass proceeds and wants to overcome freedom in slavery. He goes through the experience of life, liberty, and freedom in his triumph. According to the narrative, “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass” Slavery was a bad thing in the south of the 1800s. Should slavery have ended? I believe so slavery was bad altogether. Black and whites both didn't have the same equality as one another. It was a great consideration that the emancipation proclamation was announced so slaves can be freed. Firstly, Frederick goes through the life living with his master named Mr. Covey. Frederick had to through a lot with his new master he stayed with for a year. Mr. Covey whipped or beat Frederick to a pulp for not giving wheat to the fan because he was tired. “Mr.Covey took up the hickory slat with which Hughes had been striking off the half-bushel measure” (Douglass 40). Eventually Frederick got fed up with of how he was treated and fought back. “I seized Covey hard by the throat; and as I did so, I rose” (Douglass 42). Frederick was no longer whipped after that Mr. Covey was mostly frightened about his reputation. Mr. Covey learned his lesson to not be …show more content…
Six months after the fight The Narrator was still untouched or whipped. Frederick really missed his friends in Baltimore and wanted to escape from his master. “The thought of leaving my friends was decidedly the most painful thought with which I had to contend” (Douglass 63). This showed that he missed his friends and thought it was the worst to not see them. He planned on escaping from the chains of slavery and off to freedom. “On the third day of September, 1838, I left my chains, and succeeded in reaching New York without the slightest interruption of any kind” (Douglass 63). He escaped his master and ran off to new York and succeeded. To sum up, he left unknowingly and escaped off to the roads of freedom