A farmer and overseer infamously known as a “slave-breaker”. Thomas Auld, the son-in-law of Aaron Anthony, sent Douglass to work for Covey because he was finding it difficult to manage Douglass. At around age sixteen – after enduring Covey’s brutality for months – Douglass bested Covey in a fight one Sunday morning and made the often repeated statement that in doing so he was never whipped again.