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Summary Of The Negro Mother By Harriet Tubman

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Slavery in the south: The hardships of slavery explains what slaves went through. Two examples of what the slaves went through are their family life and their treatment. The treatment of slaves included much pain. One day Harriet Tubman was wiped five times before breakfast. This tells us that she went through lots of pain as a slave. In the text “The Negro Mother” it reads, ‘’ I am the one who labored as a slave beaten and mistreated for the work that I gave.’’ This explains that the Negro Mother gave so much hard work and got nothing from it. These two had lots of physical pain. In many slaves family lives, they went through much separation. Harriet Tubman’s slave owner sold away three of her sisters which separated the family apart.
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