Question

Summarize what slavery was like based on these lines.

One such who could was an old man, call him Toby. And
standing tall, yet afraid, was a young woman who once had
wings. Call her Sarah. Now Sarah carried a babe tied to her
back. She trembled to be so hard worked and scorned.
The slaves labored in the fields from sunup to sundown.
The owner of the slaves calling himself their Master. Say he
was a hard lump of clay. A hard, glint coal. A hard rock pile,
wouldn’t be moved. His Overseer[1] on horseback pointed out
the slaves who were slowing down. So the one called Driver
cracked his whip over the slow ones to make them move
faster. That whip was a slice-open cut of pain. So they did
move faster. Had to.

Answer 1

Being a slave was hard work, they had to grind until they were trembling, even when they were scorned. They were whipped if they weren't working fast enough.