If the master trains the slave to take care of his own children, or of his favorite animals, then he wishes to have him kind; but if he trains him for a tasker or a field overseer, then he wishes to have him severe.
Mann illustrates how the training of slaves varies based on their roles, affecting their treatment and the expectations placed upon them.
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The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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