This figure is given a supposed magical root by a man named Sandy. He remembers an incident in which Demby refuses to leave a stream and is shot by Mr. Gore. As a child he befriends Daniel and tricks older boys into giving him reading lessons by pretending to know more than them. He is changed when he reads a copy of the The Columbian Orator. He recalls speaking to the ships that sail by before relating his fight with the sadistic Edward Covey. H
This figure is given a supposed magical root by a man named Sandy. He remembers an incident in which Demby refuses to leave a stream and is shot by Mr. Gore. As a child he befriends Daniel and tricks older boys into giving him reading lessons by pretending to know more than them. He is changed when he reads a copy of the The Columbian Orator. He recalls speaking to the ships that sail by before relating his fight with the sadistic Edward Covey. He becomes a caulker at a Baltimore shipyard, but is forced to turn all his wages over to Hugh Auld. He marries Anna Murray and goes to New Bedford, Massachusetts, after escaping from Maryland. For 10 points, name this character, a prominent abolitionist who relates the narrative of his life of slavery in a notable autobiography.
This figure is given a supposed magical root by a man named Sandy.
Frederick Douglass