Mr. Leckley: A Case Study

Furthermore, Josh’s proficiency and excellence of performing work, enabled Mr. Leckler to gain more cash, develop his plan, and through his mistrust of Mr. Eckley reveals the mistrust and dishonesty among slave-owners (1). Josh, like so many of his brethren who were in bondage, who were master craftsmen, learned the trade of plastering and was very skillful with his duties around the plantation. He became the prominent plasterer in the area, and hired out to do contract work for other households and businesses (2). In an illustration of the systematic exploitation of slaves, Josh performed work for Mr. Eckley, brought the proceeds to Mr. Leckler, and received the small amount of ten-percent for his labor (1). Demonstrating that these men of “principle” would possibly cheat each
Thus, as Mrs. Leckler surmises, in teaching Josh to be able to read, equipped with a rudimentary education, just enough to take measurements and determine how much material to be used for the job, Mr. Leckler will be able to accumulate an additional amount of money for services rendered (1-2). Under the guise of being an honorable and benevolent slaveholder, which in itself is an oxymoron, but in reality exposes the sly Leckler scheming to further use Josh, under the pretext that Josh may be able to save enough of the extra earnings to be able to purchase his freedom (1-2). All of this supposition is contradicted by his statement that incriminates Leckler and reveals his true intentions when he says to himself that although it will encumber Josh with a prodigious task and a lengthy amount of time to accumulate the substantial sum of two-thousand dollars, that even in the event of attaining that goal the price might have to rise, because of the imaginary inflationary cost of freedom for slaves