Underground Railroad

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nd inferior race, a stranger in a land of strangers, how miserable would be his fate!”(Williams 41) That is what this person really believes, and he was not alone. The slave owners really believed that slavery was very beneficial for the slaves, and they clothed their slaves well. According to the slaves, their dwellings were unimaginably poor huts that were not suited for living at all. Let us look at some descriptions of their huts to realize how terrible the conditions of the slaves were. One of the slaves remembers that the hut usually was “...one-room log cabin... without a partition and a total furnishing were generally a bed, a bench and a few cooking utilities”(Feldstein 42). Another former slave tells us that “...they [were] erected with posts and crotches, with but little or no frame-work about them. They [had] no stoves or chimneys; some of them [had] something like a fireplace at the end...”(Moulton 19). It is obvious that these cabins with no furniture inside did
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