For women the that lived on the distant plantations was worse then the ones in towns because people were unaware of each other’s affairs. Bad as the laws and customs in a slaveholding community, the doctor, as a professional man, deemed it prudent to keep up some outward show of decency. Her very first proud moment about the customs in the Free states in the South. Colored people were allowed to ride in a filthy box, behind white people, at the south, but there they were not required to pay for the privilege. She was sad to find how the north aped the customs of slavery. Harriet felt that it was pretty pitiful that the country boasted of its social development, while it threatened you with laws and customs which made experiences strange.
