...bitterest dregs of slavery, Mr Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished,...died, the dark night of slavery closed in upon me ; and behold a man transformed into a brute 1 Sunday was my only leisure time. I spent this in a sort...

...taking our meals .... A few months of this discipline tamed me. I was broken in body, soul and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed; my intellect languished; the disposition to read departed ; the dark night of Slavery closed in upon me ; and behold a man transformed into a brute !" Sunday, his...

...this discipline tamed me. Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed ; my intellect languished...died ; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me ; and behold a man transformed into a brute ! " Sunday was my only leisure time. I spent this in a...

...months of this discipline tamed me. Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me — in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed ; my intellect languished...the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died out ; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me, and beheld a man transformed to a brute. Sunday...

...months of this discipline tamed me. Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me — in body, soul, and spirit My natural elasticity was crushed ; my intellect languished...the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died out; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me, and behold a man transformed to a brute ! Sunday...

...slavery." "A few months of this discipline tamed me." . . ." I was broken in body, soul and spirit." ..." My natural elasticity was crushed ; my intellect languished ; the disposition to read departed ; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me ; and behold a man transformed into a brute !"..."! had neither...

...relates the effect of unceasing and habitual toil on one in whom there was a gleam of knowledge : " My natural elasticity was crushed ; my intellect languished...the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died out : the dark night of slavery closed in upon me, and behold a man transformed to a brute."' An observer...

...slavery. ... A few months of this discipline tamed me. ... I was broken in body, soul and spirit . . . My natural elasticity was crushed ; my intellect languished ; the disposition to read departed ; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me ; and behold a man transformed into a brute ! I had neither...

...this discipline tamed me. Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished,...died ; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me ; and behold a man transformed into a brute ! Narrative of the Life of Frederich Douglass, written...

...this discipline tamed me. Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished,...died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute! Sunday was my only leisure time. I spent this in a sort...