The mistress always found fault with the slaves, particularly the ** **, and ensured that they came under the lash. Whenever she suspected her husband of showing extra favours to his ** **** which he withheld from other ** slaves, her anger was even more and she compelled her husband to sell this class of slaves. If he didn’t, the master had to whip such slaves himself or see one of his sons tie up and up his brother. Thus we see that the slaves suffered unbearable hardships at the hands of the slaveholder and his mistress, and if the master happened to be the father of the , the plight of such a * was even worse.
