Arabella

English

8 May, 11:59

Douglass has decided that he is already free, even if he is not free legally. Which passage supports this inference?

He spoke to me very kindly, bade me drive the pigs from a lot near by, and passed on towards the church.

I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

After threatening me thus, he [Master Thomas] gave me a very large dose of salts, telling me that I might remain in St. Michael's that night, (it being quite late,) but that I must be off back to Mr. Covey's early in the morning; and that if I did not, he would get hold of me, which meant that he would whip me.

From this time I was never again what might be called fairly whipped, though I remained a slave four years afterwards.