ot;...as a slave, he [a black person] would have at least the protection of one master interested in his welfare; as a freeman, almost beyond the pale of government protection, with no one to take care of him, of a despised and inferior race, a stranger in a land of strangers, how miserable would be his fate!"(Williams 41) That is what this person really believes, and he was not alone. The slave owners really believed that slavery was very beneficial for the slaves, and they clothed their slaves well.
According to the slaves, their dwellings were unimaginably poor huts that were not suited for living at all. Let us look at some descriptions of their huts to realize how terrible the conditions of the slaves were. One of the slaves remembers that the hut usually was "...one-room log cabin... without a partition and a total furnishing were generally a bed, a bench and a few cooking utilities"(Feldstein 42). Another former slave tells us that "...they [were] erected with posts and c
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