- basic needs met: no clothes
- emotional needs-mother/son separated
- brutality
- lack of personal information: birthday, etc
- its not just the masters but the wives: females were possibly the worst
- Mrs. Auld: seemed kind but kept education from him
Covey
- takes pride in his reputation of breaking slaves
- fights with Douglass and leaves him alone bc not his own slave
- breaks Douglass's spirit and elasticity...
- ...Douglass realizes he'd rather die on his own accord rather than another man break him down
- Douglass becomes a man when he fights back and wins, gains control of the situation, educated
Religion
- the more religious, often the more cruel
How are slaves made?
- denied the ability to think--work only
- dehumanize: no family, no birthday, no identity--no sense of unique self.
- don't know any different
- denied privileges of free will/control
- starvation, whipping
- mind games: holidays-get really drunk as a way to control them
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