sues of the novel focuses on Douglass himself, as the identification of the slave as a person. Douglass seems to identify him as part of the collective mass of slaves who have no personal identity aside from that of the objects they are characterized as being. His narrative shows him breaking away from the objectification of being a slave and the consequent moving into a realization of self as having value and definition beyond the term of "slave." This only takes place as Douglass struggles to tolerate and eventually rise above the physical injustices he met within his life. It was due to the horrifying experiences at Covey's that Douglass grew the most and began to fight back to gain his individuality. "Mr. Covey seemed now to think he had me, and
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