Alexandria Avona’s Reviews > Thirty Years a Slave From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter: Autobiography of Louis Hughes > Status Update
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"Possessing absolute power over the bodies and souls of their slaves, and grown rich from unrequited toil, they became possessed of avarice and pride, and lost sight of their most Christly qualities."
Exactly. At the end McGee is like an addict coming off of a hard drug. He becomes anxious and makes rash decisions in trying to remain identified as a slaveholder that it ultimately kills him.
— Mar 01, 2025 02:35PM
Exactly. At the end McGee is like an addict coming off of a hard drug. He becomes anxious and makes rash decisions in trying to remain identified as a slaveholder that it ultimately kills him.
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"They would say encouragingly to them: "Ah! You will be free some day." But the down-trodden slaves, some of whom were bowed with age, with frosted hair and furrowed cheek, would answer, looking up from their work: "We don't believe dat; my grandfather said we was to be free, but we ain't free yet." It had been talked of (this freedom) from generation to generation."
— Mar 01, 2025 01:20PM
