... quick beating could cut down on future misbehaviors, guarantee good work and they were used to discourage slaves from trying to test the rules. < > "Free? Is anybody ever free? Ain't everybody you know a slave to someone or something or other?" 1 "You used to be worth a thousand dollars then but you"re not ... worth two bits now. You ain't worth nothing when you"re free." 2 Nonviolent acts of protest were far more common among plantation slaves. Slaves ran away from their masters for many reasons. Some of the reasons might ... they know they are going to have a beating. Harriet Tubman ...

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