Jrc in class assignment

Some slaves were treated decently, these slaves sometimes had food and shelter, while other slaves were treated terribly and often were made to fear their masters. In When I Was a Slave, edited by Norman R. Yetman, we see how Frank  Bell was treated by his slave master in New Orleans, Louisiana. Frank Bell worked in his master's saloon where he was mistreated and threaten to be killed often throughout the day. Bell was very afraid of his slave master because often his slave master said to him, "I'll hunt and kill you nigger" (Yetman 10). Bell's slave master continued to instill fear into him by killing Bell's wife, who he married at the age of 17, and made him dispose of the body in the river close by. According to Frank Bell, he had to continue doing his master's "dirty work" when it came to disposing bodies in the river because in his master's saloon there were usually shootouts and Bell had to get rid of the evidence to avoid being in trouble with the law. Frank Bell was only one example of how slaves were so afraid of their masters that they were never willing to disobey a single order.