The Battle with Mr.Covey

I think the purpose of Fredrick Douglas writing this story is to show people the way that he himself had to deal with the harsh ways of his slave owner. How slavery was a problem in society and that if nobody did anything about it then these type of slave rebellions would occur all over, and could be worse in some cases. He just had a fight with his owner but some other slaves might take it a step further and kill theirs.

He is on a slave plantation and while he is working he fall because he is so tires. After he falls he crawls to a fence and lies there until his master gets there. When his master gets there he kicks him and beats him over the head with a stick. He then runs away and while he is running he can feel the blood running down his head("the blood was yet oozing from the wound on my head, but the blood so matted my hair as to stop the wound"), and the sticks and rocks as they cut into his feet and cause them to bleed also.("I started my through bogs and berries,barefoot and bareheaded tearing my feet nearly at every step"). After he had gotten a few mlies away still bloody from his wounds he gets to another slave owners house the owner makes him return home in the morning. After he gets home he is whipped again and once again escapes. When he leaves this time he leaves with a man who has a free wife. When he gets there they give him a root and tell him that as long as he keeps the root on his right side then he will no longer receive a blow from his master. After he returns home while he is working his master come in the stable and they begin to fight. While they are fighting Fredrick gets the best of him and the fight ends.

Fredrick Douglas shed a lot of light on some things that people had no idea was going on on plantations. The true way that some slaves handled the way that their masters treated them and the causes of it.