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" I did, come what might; that he had used me like a brute for six months, and that I was determined to be used so no longer. With that, he strove to drag me to a stick that was lying just out of the stable door. He meant to knock me down. "
My Bondage and My Freedom ... - Page 238
by Frederick Douglass - 1855 - 464 pages
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Five Hundred Thousand Strokes for Freedom: A Series of Anti-slavery ..., Issue 2

Wilson Armistead - Antislavery movements - 1853 - 380 pages
...that was lying just out of the stable door ;'-'he meant to knock me down. But just as he was leaning over to get the stick, I seized him with both hands by the collar, and brought him by a sudden smash to the ground. By this time Bill came. Covey called upon him for assistance....
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: From 1817-1882

Frederick Douglass - Antislavery movements - 1882 - 516 pages
...to persist in my resistance." I told him I " did mean to resist, come what might ; that I had been treated like a brute during the last six months, and...the not over clean ground, for we were now in the cow-yard. He had selected the place for the fight, and it was but right that he should have the advantages...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass - Biography & Autobiography - 1982 - 164 pages
...stick that was lying just out of the stable door. He meant to knock me down. But just as he was leaning over to get the stick, I seized him with both hands by his collar, and brought him by a sudden snatch to the ground. By this time, Bill came. Covey called...
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To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760 ...

William L. Andrews - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 372 pages
...stick that was lying just out of the stable door. He meant to knock me down. But just as he was leaning over to get the stick, I seized him with both hands by his collar, and brought him by a sudden snatch to the ground. By this time, Bill came. Covey called...
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass - Biography & Autobiography - 1881 - 580 pages
...to persist in my resistance." I told him I " did mean to resist, come what might ; that I had been treated like a brute during the last six months, and...the not over clean ground, for we were now in the cow-yard. He had selected the place for the fight, and it was but right that he should have all the...
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Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies (LOA #68): Narrative of the Life / My ...

Frederick Douglass - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 1226 pages
...stick that was lying just out of the stable door. He meant to knock me down. But just as he was leaning over to get the stick, I seized him with both hands by his collar, and brought him by a sudden snatch to the ground. By this time, Bill came. Covey called...
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The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction

Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - American literature - 1997 - 608 pages
...stick that was lying just out of the stable door. He meant to knock me down. But just as he was leaning over to get the stick, I seized him with both hands by his collar, and brought him by a sudden snatch to the ground. By this time, Bill came, Covey called...
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A Documentary History of Slavery in North America

Willie Lee Nichols Rose - History - 1999 - 558 pages
...stick that was lying just out of the stable door. He meant to knock me down. But just as he was leaning over to get the stick, I seized him with both hands by his collar, and brought him by a sudden snatch to the ground. By this time, Bill came. Covey called...
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Slave Narratives (LOA #114): Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat ...

William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates - Literary Collections - 2000 - 1066 pages
...stick that was lying just out of the stable door. He meant to knock me down. But just as he was leaning over to get the stick, I seized him with both hands by his collar, and brought him by a sudden snatch to the ground. By this time, Bill came. Covey called...
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Racism: A Global Reader

Kevin Reilly, Stephen Kaufman, Angela Bodino - History - 2003 - 438 pages
...stick that was lying just out of the stable door. He meant to knock me down. But just as he was leaning over to get the stick, I seized him with both hands by his collar, and brought him by a sudden snatch to the ground. By this time, Bill came. Covey called...
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