Leave them weeping
Colin Grant: Frederick Douglass, 1 August 2019
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
by David Blight.
Simon and Schuster, 892 pp., £30, November 2018,978 1 4165 9031 6 Show More
by David Blight.
Simon and Schuster, 892 pp., £30, November 2018,
“... plantation to be shared out between the dead man’s relatives.In 1834, Douglass’s new master, Thomas Auld, a mean ‘object of contempt’, believing his authority was being challenged by his insolent teenage slave, handed him over ‘to be broken’ by an overseer called Edward Covey. ‘Mr Covey succeeded in breaking ... ”