Edward Covey was a significant person in Douglass' life. He was a slave-breaker that would correct the disciplinary actions of a slave. He was in charge of “fixing” Douglas. The most significant interaction between Douglas and Covey was when Douglas refused to get a beating and revolted. He fought off Covey for 2 hours, first slave ever to resist Covey. The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery. They are professedly a custom established by the benevolence of the slaveholders; but I undertake to say, it is the. Their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation (Douglas, 72). Sandy Jenkins had a huge impact on Douglas’s life. She gives Douglas the courage to stand up against Covey. She hands him a root that would give him the power and courage to stop Covey’s beatings; “A certain root, which, if I would take some of it with me, carrying it always on my right side, would render it impossible for Mr. Covey, or any other white man, to whip me” (Douglas, 67). Hugh Auld doesn't really do anything drastically to impact Douglas’s life directly, but he does give him a new ideology. Hugh unknowingly teaches Douglas about the immense power of education and what it can lead to;” Whilst I was saddened by the thought of losing the aid of my kind mistress, I was gladdened by the invaluable instruction which, by the merest accident, I had gained from my master. Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read. The very decided manner with which he spoke, and strove to impress his wife with the evil consequences of giving me instruction, served to convince me that he was deeply sensible of the truths he was uttering. It gave me the best assurance that I might rely with the utmost confidence on the results which, he