Broken

          Chapters eight, nine and ten 

"I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!" 

(page 105)

This quote really stood out while concluding my reading. Through out the book, we see the cruelty of several slave owners. Anyhow, in these few chapters we see the cruelest slave holders. Through the book, i've noticed the masters are worse each time. The first ones were not as punishing and inhumane as the very last ones. In these chapters Douglass tells us how he suffered in the last plantations. Hunger was basically the worst with his last owner. He explains how he manages to find provisions from nearby farms and neighbors. Unfortunately, Douglass' master starts notice the excuse for Douglass to go out of the plantation: letting his horse run and go looking for him. So, he decides to rent Douglass for a year to master Covey's. This man is known throughout as a slave tamer. In his plantation, Douglass is forced to work in the field for the first time. He narrates is life and how tough the first six months were, he also shares some information of the man and how he planed to own more salves instead of renting them. He shows the scenes of the punishments he received, like whipping, which became weakly if not daily and how this experience "crushed" him.