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Sis fairness

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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SIS FAIRNESS

GABY, KARA, SAM, ANDREW
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"He would chase them around while chasing after them, trying to lash anyone who wondered to close to his whip."p54

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"In the fall slaves in Louisiana picked cotton from sun up to sun down in the blazing sun as high temperatures baked the fields. Today giant machines harvest the cotton."p52

"Besides punishing his slaves for breaking his rules, Epps whipped them for his personal amusement ."p53

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"His bed was a wooden plank, his pillow a stick of wood, and his only bedding was a raggedy old blanket."p51

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""If I ever catch you with a book, or with a pen and ink, I will give you a hundred lashes!""p65

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"When up for sale slaves had to act agreeable while having their muscles and teeth inspected. Failure to do so could result in a whipping ."p23

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"That fall 150 slaves from various Holmesville-area farms walked a hundered miles to Centerville area near the golf of Mexico." P61

"Master Epps managed his slaves without an overseer, relying on his whip to make them obey his rules."p52

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"Solomon had been beaten so savagely that for a few days he expected to die."p11

"Those who had picked significantly less cotton then expected were whipped- the number of strikes depending on how deficient they had been on their days work.p53

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