In Chapter 10, like many of the other instances before, Douglass describes another beating. This time, it is of his own beating. How do you compare or contrast his description of his beating by Mr. Covey with the earlier descriptions that he remembered observing as a boy? Why do you think these similarities or differences lend to his overall purpose?

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia