Northup was subjected to all sorts of torture and demoralization . Expressing the pain of slavery , Northup writes , `` Oh , how heavily the weight of slavery pressed upon then I must toil day after day , endure abuse and taunts and scoffs , sleep on the hard ground , live on the coarsest fare and not only this , but to live the slave of a blood-seeking wretch , of whom I must stand hence forth in continued fear and dread (7 . The adverse luck of...











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