Cracker • When Douglass states that, "Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. 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!" how does this passage portray the mental and emotional state of a slave who
has been dehumanized? What images does the passage bring to mind?