A slave who works with Douglass. He briefly takes Douglass in after Douglass flees Covey’s farm. Sandy also gives Douglass a special root, which he superstitiously believes will protect Douglass from being harmed by his master. Initially, Sandy also plans to escape William Freeland’s farm with Douglass and several other slaves, but he backs out of the plan, which suggests that he may have been the one who betrayed Douglass to his master.
Get the entire Narrative of Frederick... LitChart as a printable PDF.
Sandy Jenkins Character Timeline in The Narrative of Frederick Douglass
The timeline below shows where the character Sandy Jenkins appears in The Narrative of Frederick Douglass. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 10
...in the cornfields. Douglass spends the day in the woods, and meets a slave named Sandy Jenkins , who is on his way to the house where his free wife lives. Jenkins...
(full context)
...owns only two slaves, Henry and John Harris. Douglass is a hired hand, along with Sandy Jenkins and Handy Caldwell. Douglass instills in his fellow slaves the desire to learn to read,...
(full context)
...The group of escapees consists of Henry Harris, John Harris, Henry Bailey, and Charles Roberts. Sandy Jenkins was initially going to come, but backed out. To give their escape some plausibility, Douglass...
(full context)
