Frederick Douglass's grandmother meant a tremendous ... in the Bay Side, a man named Edward Covey, who enjoyed the execrated reputation of being a first-rate hand at breaking young Negroes.

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium ... hired out to a farm run by a notoriously brutal "slavebreaker" named Edward Covey. And the treatment he received was indeed brutal.

Auld’s wife, Sophia, began teaching young Frederick to read and write ... Before long, Douglass was sent to work for Edward Covey. Covey was known as a brutal “slave breaker.” ...