Fredrick Dougless says to five white little boys,” you will be free as soon as you are 21, but I am a slave for life”. Fredrick Douglass was born February 1818, enslaved. He was young and wanted to learn how to read and write for his benefit, so he did everything he could to do so. Only seven years after he escaped Douglass wrote three autobiographies, one of them being Narrative of the Life of FrederickDouglass. Learning to read and write and his victory over Mr. Covey was significant because if it wasn't for his need to read and write he would possibly have tried to escape earlier due to the fact that there would be nothing stopping him and winning sparked power and motivation in him. Learning to read was significant because if he wasn't busy trying …show more content…
Douglass had just been asked to do some work back at the stables with the horses to which he agreed to doing with no resistance. But for whatever reason Mr. Covey went down to the stables with a long rope in his hand. Douglass writes, “Mr. Covey entered the stable with a long rope”(85). Then Douglass states,”But at this from where came the spirit I don't know I resolved to fight"(85). This shows that Douglass had something awakened in him. Possibly a build up of anger, or a strike of boldness, or maybe motivation. Whatever it was, it was strong. Later Douglass had shown so much unexpected resistance towards Mr. Covey. By the time the fight was almost at an end and Covey was trembling called for Huges to come help him with Douglass. Douglass then gave a sickening kick to hughes. Douglass and Covey fought, then continued until Covey had given up. Douglass wrote, “Covey at length let me go huffing and puffing and blowing at a great rate saying that if I had not resisted, he would not have whipped me half as much. The truth was that he had not whipped me at