Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Bailey, was forced at age six to leave the Tuckahoe and enter plantation life under his master's roof in Miles River Neck, where he witnessed brutal and routine violence against enslaved people. Later in Baltimore, he gleaned literacy from the streets, sharpened his intellect, and became empowered through his newfound religion. After his master moved him to St. Michaels as a teenager, he started a clandestine Sunday School and taught others to read. When this was discovered, he was sent to the fields of Edward Covey, a "slavebreaker," whom he famously fought and beat. From Covey's isolated bayside shore, the white sails on the Chesapeake Bay inspired him to seek self-emancipation. During the first years of his life, he lived enslaved in several waterside places on Maryland's Eastern Shore and came to understand that land was the place of bondage while water was the pathway to freedom.