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We can learn many things from these visual and written documents about the experiences of slave children and slave parents, such as all the hardships African slaves faced, how crude and evil their slave masters were and the seemingly countless lives lost during these repulsive times. While reading Mary Reynolds vivid story about her experience as a slave, we learn that her slave master, Kilpatrick, was immensely strict and brutal. Although Kilpatrick was the Master, he had Solomon do the dirty work for him. Mary even states in her story that "slavery was the worst days was ever seed in the world', she mentions the times when Solomon would beat some slaves so intensely that they died immediately after laying down. Mary Reynolds further talks

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