When fanning wheat Frederick Douglass is overcome with extreme fatigue and falls to his knees unable to get up. Mr. Covey the slave breaker who saw Frederick stop working came to see what was going on. After inquiring what happened he forces Douglass to get up with his whip. Frederick runs into the woods to avoid the beating of Covey when he runs into a fellow slave Sandy Jenkins. After hearing his story, Sandy gives Frederick a “magic” root that he should carry in his right pocket so that no white man will ever whip him again.
GETTT UPP!!!
With the root in his pocket Frederick returns to the fields and is awaited by kind words from Mr. Covey. Surprised of the outcome Douglass starts to believe in the magic of the root, but later in the day he is proven wrong. When finishing his work, Frederick was trapped by Mr. Covey who intended to whip him. Out of no where, Douglass found strength the fight back. He seized Covey and with his newly found confidence he attempted to win the fight.
CRASH!!
BOOM!!
When the fight was done, Frederick had found victory. The battle brought back a spirit that he had lost and the satisfaction he found made him realize that though Frederick may still be a slave on the outside but no longer will he be seen acting like one.
I may be a slave in form but no longer will I act or think like one!