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Life as a Slave
Chapter 9
Life in the Great House
A contrast between the Lloyd family's staggering luxury and the field hands' want, including Douglass's account of watching Old Barney whipped, and the likely paternity of the light-skinned coachman William Wilks.
The Lloyd family's opulence versus field-hand povertyOld Barney's whipping over the horsesWilliam Wilks, probably Colonel Lloyd's own sonWhy slaves praise whichever master they belong to