“An't I yer master? Didn't I pay down twelve hundred dollars cash, for all there is inside yer old cussed black shell? An't yer mine, now, body and soul?" he said, giving Tom a violent kick
with his heavy boot; "tell me!"
In the very depth of physical suffering, bowed by brutal oppression, this question shot a gleam
of joy and triumph through Tom's soul. He suddenly stretched himself up, and, . . he exclaimed,
"No! no! no! my soul an't yours, Mas'r! You haven't bought it,—ye can't buy it! It's been bought
and paid for, by one that is able to keep it;—no matter, no matter, you can't harm me!"
-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852
a.
In this passage, the slaveowner Simon Legree treats the slave Tom as
a member of his family
c.
a free person
b. a hired worker
d. a piece of his property