Question

On one of these sale days, I saw a mother lead seven children to the auction-block. She knew that some of them would be taken from her; but they took all. The children were sold to a slave-trader, and their mother was brought by a man in her own town. Before night her children were all far away. She begged the trader to tell her where he intended to take them; this he refused to do. How could he, when he knew he would sell them, one by one, wherever he could command the highest price? I met that mother in the street, and her wild, haggard face lives to-day in my mind. She wrung her hands in an

Answer 1

Based on the passage, which part of slave life most likely made its way into songs and stories of the slave communities?

The cost of a human life

The evil nature of men towards each other

The search for children who had been sold

The quick passage of time in the life of a chil