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Life as a Slave
Chapter 8
Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation
Douglass details the plantation's meager food and clothing allowances, the whip called the cowskin, and the overseers' brutal punishment of slaves like Nelly, who fought back rather than submit.
Monthly food and clothing allowancesThe cowskin whip describedNelly's resistance to overseer SevierPlantation slave songs and their true, mournful meaning