Donald Rumsfeld meets the ghost of Frederick Douglass
http://www.nydailynews.com/01-09-2006/news/ideas_opinions/story/381121p-323624c.html
"Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, is...maintaining a weekend home on Chesapeake Bay that was originally built and lived in by a singularly notorious slave owner, Edward Covey. The defense secretary's house, a former bed and breakfast, is known locally as Mount Misery."
"The name is well deserved. Edward Covey was not just a slave owner. He was a "Negro breaker," to whom other slave owners handed over rebellious slaves. The most famous slave Covey tried to break was Frederick Douglass,..."
Fascinating.
- Vox
"Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, is...maintaining a weekend home on Chesapeake Bay that was originally built and lived in by a singularly notorious slave owner, Edward Covey. The defense secretary's house, a former bed and breakfast, is known locally as Mount Misery."
"The name is well deserved. Edward Covey was not just a slave owner. He was a "Negro breaker," to whom other slave owners handed over rebellious slaves. The most famous slave Covey tried to break was Frederick Douglass,..."
Fascinating.
- Vox
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