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Life as a Slave
Chapter 6
A General Survey of the Slave Plantation
A portrait of Colonel Edward Lloyd's isolated ‘home plantation’ — its wealth, its total absence of outside public opinion, and the three-class order of slaveholders, slaves, and overseers that governed it absolutely.
Colonel Edward Lloyd's plantation as a self-contained legal vacuumWhy isolation makes plantation slavery harsherThe plantation's internal caste system among slavesSlave dialect and the ‘Guinea’ slaves