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Never did I imagine myself going through all I did and live to tell my story today of all the hardships slavery gave to me. I was taken to Maryland and experienced slavery at its finest there. The South was home to big plantations and the many slaves who worked in them, myself being one of them. Numbers in slaves varied from plantation to plantation. Some had over a hundred while others had close to twenty. There was a difference in masters in these plantations as well. There was few generous ones who had a heart and would feed us more than once a day, and show compassion when we needed to be punished. While others would beat us bare and whip out our backs and would stop when their own started to hurt. Nonetheless there was nothing I could …show more content…

Yearly clothes was worth no more than seven dollars in total. We received two linen shirts, one pair of trousers, one jacket, and another pair of trousers for the winter, one pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes. Imagine having to use only that for the rest of the year. Imagine someone stealing your belongings or your clothing getting torn and becoming unwearable. You had to make the best of what you are given and make it last. It was the same way for the children. Their allowance was giving to their mothers or whoever was taking care of them. The children were not giving the same amount of clothing that the adults were given, so most of the time they were living bare until they received their next allowance. We were treated like pigs, When it was time for us to be fed, our food was placed in a large tray and when it was time to eat, they called us and whoever got there first received the most to eat. Everyone got the chance to get some food, but the last ones to eat were left hungry. Captain Auld, my second master, was a hypocritical man. I would think a religious man would see slavery being bad or would treat his slaves fair. Many who attended the same Methodist camp as him were friendly toward their slaves, showing them how to read and write. Not maser Auld he was even more cruel to the slaves than a heathen was. He was the one who made me question if

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