The reason why William T Allen made this statement was in order to show the manner of cruelty with which the blacks were being treated in the country.
The slaved men and women were exposed to a lot of cruelty in the United States by their owners.
Most of them were used to work in plantaions. They were beaten, injured and starved. The whitemen did not treat them like they were humans in any way.
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