the worst of slavery

The passage in which I feel that you see slavery at its worst is on page 62 talking about a slave named James who ran away and was caught and dragged back in the punishment he received. This is how window describes the punishment that James received “therefore he decided, after the overseer should have whipped him to his satisfaction, to have in place between the screws of the cotton gin, to stay as long as he had been in the woods.” The passage later goes on to say how after four days that gin was unscrewed and there was the bodies half eaten buy rats. This passage shows how bad slavery is and how cruel a master is to his slaves. The fact that a man has the power to legally kill human beings and in a manner that they can do it is morally wrong.