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Colonel Lloyd's Garden
Douglass describes the plantation's showcase garden, the punishments used to guard its fruit, and the atmosphere of enforced deference Colonel Lloyd demanded — including the story of an enslaved man sold away from his family for answering a stranger's question honestly.
The plantation garden and its guarded fruitOld Barney and Young Barney, keepers of the horsesColonel Lloyd's demand for absolute deferenceA man sold south for telling the truth about his treatment