A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation. He is much better fed and clothed, and enjoys privile
ges altogether unknown to the slave on the plantation. There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation. He is a desperate slaveholder, who will shock the humanity of his nonslaveholding neighbors with the cries of his lacerated slave. Which phrase is evidence that enslaved people on plantations were treated especially badly?
“those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation.”
“will shock the humanity of his nonslaveholding neighbors”
“He is much better fed and clothed”
“There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame”
That is more important because he was living on the streets and what if he did't have food to eat and he could starve to death but Mrs. Jones took him to her house and gave him food even after what he did instead of turning him in to the cops.
