My strong aversion to the great farm, was not owing to my own personal suffering, but the daily suffering of others, and to the certainty that I must, sooner or later, be placed under the barbarous rule of an overseer, such as the accomplished Gore, or the brutal and drunken Plummer.
Douglass explains that his hatred for the plantation stemmed not only from his own potential suffering but also from witnessing the daily torment of others and the inevitable cruelty of overseers.
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