Edward Covey

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Edward Covey (early 1800s). Edward Covey was an early nineteenth century American slaveholder. He is described by Frederick Douglas in My Bondage and My Freedom (published in 1855) as a "a first rate hand at breaking young negroes". In 1833, Douglas was rented to Covey for a year in order to break the teenage slave's spirit.

Covey's former home, Mount Misery in Maryland (located in the town of St. Michaels), was purchased in 2003 by United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

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