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Douglass'account of his own life in that lowest period in his own life. and that written account did more than any other to galvanize the american abolitionist movement to bring an end to slavery. of course, it was not fiction. it really happened and it happened as frederick douglass said it did, and edward covey was a real person who operated a slave-breaking operation at his farm to which frederick douglass was sent. now, if you go back to that initial description, dug laz douglass describes covey's farm as being on the bay side.

Life-threatening conditions along much of southwest florida. i want to bring in adam houseley. he is one of our correspondents, and he is down in key largo. adam, what can you tell us? are the conditions getting worse? >> reporter: yeah, elizabeth, they've gotten significantly worse the last three hours. power went out locally around 10:30 in the morning. i've got my wind meter out, we're on the ocean side of key largo towards the south about 55 miles south and west of miami if you were to go that direction. right now sustained winds here 30-35 miles an hour, gusts higher than that. we're, aga...

This is not a category 1. if you are in the keys, you need to go. if you are in the lower elevations of miami-dade, you need to go. you already have mandatory evacuations. i've seen so many people ride this out and they're always fine. this isn't an always-fine kind of storm. this is a storm that will have a storm surge bubble of 15 to 20 feet. it's already running over the turks and caicos. your house is not safe in the keys. oceanside, bay side, whatever, get out. whatever it takes for you to have to do. the european model is taking it right over the western edge. probably big pine key up to...

It's hard to find sandbags here right now. but they want to know how bad it's going to be. certainly the winds will be an issue. the surge will be an issue later. not as bad as corpus christi. but it's the flooding after days and days of rain like this that really has people most concerned. you can see my photographer is higher than me right now. it's because he is standing on top of a seawall that was put in a good century ago after a devastating hurricane here. the seawall did its job. there you hear some devastating lightning and thunder there. the seawall did its job with hurricane ike in ...

Chris, absolutely. she's getting nastier as first light breaks here over key largo. we're at the northern most biggest key about 95 miles or so from key west. my heart goes out to those folks who decided to stick it down there in paradise. it is anything but. we're start to go see as the light comes up all the downed trees, the boats in this harbor here bouncing up and down. it's interesting that force of wind quadruples as wind speeds doubles. so people who have lived through maybe tropical storm force, 60-mile-an-hour winds, maybe disrupted their lives for months or years afterwards, think o...