They did not own the cabins they slept in or the clothes they wore or the food they ate or the tools they worked with or the air they breathed or the water they drank or the bit of ground that they were buried in at last, any more than did the cattle of those self same masters.
He illustrates the extent of the lack of ownership experienced by slaves, comparing them to cattle.
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