The Life of the Slave

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Bliss Hardy                                                                                        Hardy 1

Mrs. Paddy Garrett

Interpreting Literature

16 February 2011

                                        The Life of the Slave

"They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the

magnitude of his wrongs.  They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees, with back lacerated

and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness.   A day may come----it will come, if his

prayer is heard----a terrible day of vengeance, when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy."

        The master's blinded eyes and looks of askance upon that of his slave.  His well-worn and penetrated

whip of which piercing tips tear into the soft skin of the slave-worker invading the epidermis even further to

the dermis followed by the yelps and pleas of the vulnerable being.  The care-taker of the captured human was

an benighted, controlling master that demanded respect and his demands were sometimes unreasonable.  Any

wretched demeanor, was chastised and the severity of the punishment depended on the action or verbal done.

Of course it wasn't always something horrible done that was punished but just that they were unworthy slaves

made them have to submit to their master's cruel authority and floggings.  The master's inhumane frenzy was

never satisfied, wasted or sober, the desire burning within him was to lash the slave twenty more times,

without any pang of guilty conscience.  If the slave were lucky or had a somewhat mild master he only got a

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few lashes less than the other slaves living under harsh dictators.  Any feeling of pity that the master once felt

is gone, and his childlike, innocent eyes are blinded. His brain stems that once held regret are no longer

working, but the cruel actions are currently meeting with the inhumane thoughts.  He no longer meditates on

the endurance of his actions upon the slave, but on the demon-possesed flesh that desires to take over the life of

the slave. The uncontrollable master himself is the reason slavery was so wrong and ...

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