Gracie considered her mother’s perspective. She supposed it was accurate that Clover had been slower lately, less attentive. Gracie had never been able to get into the spirit of punishing the slaves though, demeaning them like animals when they failed to execute their duties with the requisite precision. She did believe wholeheartedly in the necessity of slavery, of course she did, but she abhorred certain aspects of the system. She agreed that each person had their station in life, and it seemed clear enough that the calling of the Negroes was to serve their white masters. But the brutality
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She's thought long and hard about her feeling toward the slaves and how they were treated in an inhumane way.
