and have the baby on my lap. That baby was always on my lap except when it was asleep or its mother was feeding it." Araminta tended the baby all day and at night she was expected to keep it from crying by rocking its cradle while Miss Susan slept. Whenever the baby's crying awakened its mother, she would lash Araminta with the cowhide whip she kept beside her bed. The whip did more than sting; it left scars on the child's neck and back. Sixty years later, those scars were still visible. Another time Harriet saw a bowl filled with lumps of sugar and decided to take one without asking. Harriet's mistress, Miss. Susan, saw her take a lump of sugar and started chasing her around with a whip. Harriet ran away and hid out with the pigs. She had to go back, for fear of starving to death. When she came back she got whipped over, and over, and over again. Tubman said Miss. Susan, "Now you know, I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar, and that sugar right by me did look so nice."
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