The Dark Night of Slavery Sed in Upon Me

Douglas describes a man who didn't even have much money, but he was lucky because he could break slaves. People with troublesome slaves would lend this man their slaves for a year. So he got to free labor while he broke them, so he benefited. And by the time he was done with this breaker of people, douglas says he'd finally been turned into a slave, transformed into a brute. He writes: "I was broken in body, soul and spirit"