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A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation. He is much better fed and clothed, and enjoys privileges altogether unknown to the slave on the plantation. There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation.




Based on the passage and the definition of atrocious, what effect does that word have that the word bad would not?


Atrocious explains how extreme the cruelty was beyond the idea that it was bad.

Atrocious provides less information about the cruelty than the word bad would.

Atrocious and bad would both affect the reader, but bad would be more specific.

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The action of the book shifts to the third and last location in Stowe's metaphorical geography of the United States during the slavery era with Tom's arrival at the Legree plantation in chapter 31, "Dark Places." There are only three possible endings for this story, according to Jane Tompkins, and they are Kentucky, hell, or heaven. So far, we've visited Kentucky on the Shelby farm, and although though New Orleans was a bleak place because of slavery, especially for slaves like Old Prue, the St. Clare family became a paradisiacal haven for Tom when he travelled to the Legree plantation to meet his cavalry because of Little Eva.

  • The "darkness" that surrounds the Legree plantation has two key components. On the one hand, there is the obvious sense of heinous neglect that Stowe attributes to the plantation. Stowe's early description of the Legree's grounds highlights its past position as a lovely and well-kept home, with a "smooth-shaven lawn," "ornamental shrubs," and "what had once been a conservatory," keeping with her theme of the damage that slavery poses to domestic happinesses of all types.
  • In the scene where Legree commands his slaves to sing him a song as they make their way from the steamboat landing to the plantation, this chapter also contains another prominent echo of Douglass's Narrative. One of the slaves responds to Legree screaming down Tom's Methodist hymn with a gibberish song whose strained humour hides a "deep of grief." Douglass remarks that he has "sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do" when describing the singing of similar ridiculous songs on the plantation.

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