Sunday, December 29, 2019
The Life Of George Womble And Douglass - 1432 Words
The different treatments slaves received from their masters may have been caused by the different environments they were living in. After moving from the country to Baltimore, Douglass observed that slaves living in urban surroundings were treated differently from slaves living on plantations. Douglass notices that ââ¬Å"a city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation. He is much better fed and clothed, and enjoys privileges altogether unknown to the slave on the plantationâ⬠(Douglass 32). These differences can be seen through the experiences of George Womble and Douglass. Mr. Womble, a slave who lived on a plantation in Clinton, Georgia, says that ââ¬Å"slaves on the Womble plantation were treated more like animals rather than like humansâ⬠(Womble 12). Children ate from a trough and shared meals with the animals, and his master would whip slaves ââ¬Å"just to give himself a little funâ⬠(Womble 2). Slaves were also punished unjustly. For instance, when he was sent off to complete an errand, Mr. Womble ââ¬Å"stopped to eat some persimmons [instead]â⬠¦of returning immediatelyâ⬠(Womble 13). As a result, his master ââ¬Å"started beating him on the head with a wagon spokeâ⬠until ââ¬Å"his head was covered with knots the size of hen eggs and blood was flowing from each of themâ⬠(Womble 13). This brutal treatment would not be accepted in the city. In urban areas, masters have ââ¬Å"a sense of shame that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted
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