A Slave's Life Depicted In The Story Chains

I believe that the chains in the story ,”Chains”, the life of a slave is difficult in three different ways. These three different ways are known as, “Plantation, small farms, and city.” Being a slave is hard in all three of these different places. The first place that Isabel and Ruth were is Plantation. Plantation is a hard place for slaves to live because they had to do a lot of crops for their masters. If they did not listen they would be abused, but, it was also a great place to escape from. If they were to escape, they would be in the middle of nowhere and probably die. I know this because in the text it states, “He grabbed my arm and pulled me roughly to my feet ‘I told you to move.’ Mr. Robert snarled at me. ‘Apologies sir,’ I said wincing …show more content…
The city life was also very difficult. Most of the people were in the military in the city life, or New York. The slaves were not able to escape so easily if they wished without being seen. They also had to stay inside of the house because their master is usually a business man or woman, or is just rich. I know this because in the text it states, “Two, three years ago, there was another girl here, slave like you. She talked back. Madam called her surly and took the beating her regular-like. One day she beat her with a fireplace poker” (Anderson 51). This tells me that people don’t really care about what the slaves think, they just don’t want to have slaves that aren’t able to do anything. They think that having a slave means that they are able to do anything they would like to them. They just want the slaves to learn from their mistakes and do what they are told all of the time. They city life is the lowest quality of life for the slave because the slave practically dies there. They have no chance of leaving because they can be seen anywhere and they are being abused all of the time. Isabel had to deal with having the letter “I” for insolence burned onto her face. They abuse them and nobody seems to