ork he does
             for his master he does under duress, and so the benefit of his tale is to refocus the
             discourse on labor out of rhetoric and into a tangible sense of what is demanded of
             The power of the whip is not really detailed by Genovese in any descriptions by slaves
             of how the whip increased productivity specifically. The closest he gets is quoting of a
             grandfather's advice that working hard would avoid the whip4, but Northup actually
             describes how the whip would increase his work speed for a while. Of course, there is
             always a line to be a drawn where the whipping is counter-productive, but Northup is in
             a unique position to show that it was an effective tool that could be used with all
             property alike to advantageous results. He relates that the whip would "infus[e]...into
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