Question

A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation. . . . There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation. He is a desperate slaveholder, who will shock the humanity of his non-slaveholding neighbors with the cries of his lacerated slave. Few are willing to incur the odium attaching to the reputation of being a cruel master; and above all things, they would not be known as not giving a slave enough to eat.

What inference can be drawn about city slaveholders in this excerpt?

Answer 1

B. They treat enslaved persons civilly to avoid their neighbors’ judgement.

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Answer 2

B

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B. The answer is B)They treat enslaved persons civilly to avoid their neighbors’ judgement. on edge :)

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