Indeed, it is not uncommon for slaves even to fall out and quarrel among themselves about the relative goodness of their masters, each contending for the superior goodness of his own over that of the others.
In his autobiography, Douglass details the common occurrence of enslaved people quarreling over the perceived superiority of their respective masters.
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