Technology: Moral Suasion

The unjust treatment of Opaline: “It didn’t seem to matter how talented, intelligent or independent a woman was, she was still seen as the property of a man, to do with as he pleased.”

"For a young boy, it was too much for me to bear…My heart almost broke with grief…I was born a slave--and many a time, like old Job, I've cussed the day I was born" and "She would beat me until I could hardly stand…. They whipped me until I hardly had any feeling....Master become a very devil--he 'bused me and other folks most all-killin'ly" (114).