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conditions were better at the Hensen plantation it turns out the condition was much worse at the Riley plantation. The slave cabins were far behind a row of trees in the back yard, behind the Big House so the Massa and Missy did not have to look at the pitiful slaves. Usually there would be some laughter and a lot of talk at the Hensen plantation but at the Riley plantation there was no laughter and almost no talk. Much like the slave cabins at the Hensen plantation they were lined up in “two long rows of tattered huts”2. The huts were low and ugly unlike the huts at the Hensen plantation. The slave cabin door was hanging off its hinges. The walls of logs were spread apart were the chinking had fallen out.
“Julilly walked away from the children towards an
ugly, long shack and went inside. There was light
and air only from the open door and the cracks in
the wall. The small space of hard dirt floor seemed
packed with girls, each one clinging to a pile of
filthy rags. Jullily ...

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no fun and none of the slaves tried to make the best of it instead they just bowed their heads and were ashamed of themselves.
At the Hensen plantation Massa Hensen treated the slaves well. Massa Hensen let a selected few learn how to read. The working hours were shorter than the hours at the Riley plantation. The Hensen’s made sure that the slave cabins were not crowded unlike the slave cabins at the Riley plantation. When the slaves had wore out their clothes or grew out of them the Hensen’s would give them new ones that is they did not have any holes and they were not dirty. The slaves at the Hensen plantation were respected much more than the slaves at the Riley plantation. Once the ...

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