![]() ![]() Because Covey's farm was located on Chesapeake Bay, Douglass often saw ships from all around the world. Douglass confesses that witnessing this inhuman tyranny may have been the lowest point in his life for he contemplated killing Covey and ending his own life. Despite his professed religious piety, Covey saw profit in breeding slaves, so he bought a female slave and hired a married man to have sex with her for a year. Covey pushed his slaves to the limit, making them work long hours, and he constantly spied on them to make sure they did the work. ![]() Because of this unfamiliarity, he made mistakes and was continually punished. Having spent considerable time in the city, Douglass was not familiar with farm instruments and techniques. Douglas spent a year (1833) with Covey, during which he was frequently and brutally whipped. ![]()
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