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William Ford
Tibeats is the carpenter who buys Solomon from William Ford when Ford runs into financial troubles. A sharp contrast from the warm and tender Ford, Tibeats is a cruel and erratic master, frequently trying to harm or even kill Solomon despite the fact that Solomon is a hardworking and skillful craftsman. He eventually tries to hang Solomon, and almost succeeds, but he is stopped at gunpoint by an overseer named Chapin. Ultimately, Ford compels Tibeats sell Solomon, leading Tibeats to sell Solomon to the vicious Edwin Epps.
John Tibeats Quotes in 12 Years a Slave
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Chapter 8
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He was my master, entitled by law to my flesh and blood, and to exercise over me such tyrannical control as his mean nature prompted; but there was no law that could prevent my looking upon him with intense contempt.
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Chapter 9
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I must toil day after day, endure abuse and taunts and scoffs, sleep on the hard ground, live on the coarsest fare, and not only this, but live the slave of a blood-seeking wretch, of whom I must stand henceforth in continued fear and dread. […] I sighed for liberty; but the bondman’s chain was round me, and could not be shaken off.
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John Tibeats Quotes in 12 Years a Slave
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Chapter 8
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He was my master, entitled by law to my flesh and blood, and to exercise over me such tyrannical control as his mean nature prompted; but there was no law that could prevent my looking upon him with intense contempt.
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Chapter 9
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I must toil day after day, endure abuse and taunts and scoffs, sleep on the hard ground, live on the coarsest fare, and not only this, but live the slave of a blood-seeking wretch, of whom I must stand henceforth in continued fear and dread. […] I sighed for liberty; but the bondman’s chain was round me, and could not be shaken off.
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