Question

Give two examples from Weld's writing of how cattle were treated better than enslaved people.

Answer 1

1.When cattle break through their owners' enclosures and escape, if found, they are driven back and fastened in again, but when slaves that have escaped are caught, they are beaten with the most terrible severity.

2. When herds of cattle are driven to market, they are suffered to go in the easiest way, each by himself; but when slaves are driven to market, they are fastened together with handcuffs, galled by iron collars and chains, and thus forced to travel on foot hundreds of miles, sleeping at night in their chains.