Relationships between masters and enslaved persons seemed to be similar between different plantations. Obviously, depending on who was giving the information for the source, who was translating it, and even interviewing it can all impact the legitimacy of the information. Depending if it came from the master or the slave changed how slavery was described to an extent. In the first source we are given insight into why this specific plantation owner felt the need to insight such fear and discipline with his slave. He repeatedly comments on his need for absolute control of the slaves, but their own existence of “black organization or structure” threatened his order. He decided he must undermine slave society by physical and psychological means.
