The white America south could not lose control of the bond mans’ free will,” (Raboteau 4). The slaves had an independence spirit inside of them and being forced into captivity, it had been difficult for the African slave to adopt pagan pedigreed. Making a connection with the slave-holders had its challenges. Slavery is comprised of physically damaging the flesh and killing the slaves’ psychological temperament; ridiculing and demeaning family life, raping women and secretly sodomize male slaves; lynching and flogging all in the name of greed. Slave-holders marked the garden area with tar. If a slave stole vegetables from the garden a wad of tar stuck to the foot told. The guilty party is flogged for a morsel of food to sustain life. “Indeed, those who stare at the half-peck of corn a week, and love to count the lashes on the slave’s back, are seldom the “stuff” out of which reformers and abolitionists are to be made,” (Douglass
The white America south could not lose control of the bond mans’ free will,” (Raboteau 4). The slaves had an independence spirit inside of them and being forced into captivity, it had been difficult for the African slave to adopt pagan pedigreed. Making a connection with the slave-holders had its challenges. Slavery is comprised of physically damaging the flesh and killing the slaves’ psychological temperament; ridiculing and demeaning family life, raping women and secretly sodomize male slaves; lynching and flogging all in the name of greed. Slave-holders marked the garden area with tar. If a slave stole vegetables from the garden a wad of tar stuck to the foot told. The guilty party is flogged for a morsel of food to sustain life. “Indeed, those who stare at the half-peck of corn a week, and love to count the lashes on the slave’s back, are seldom the “stuff” out of which reformers and abolitionists are to be made,” (Douglass