Chapter Nine "Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders"

In chapter 9, Harriet tells the readers about the slave owner named Mr. Litch. Unlike any other slave owner that Harriet knew, Mr. Litch was by far the most cold blooded and inhuman slave master she has ever come to know. One of his most infamous tortures was to suspend a slave from the ground and have him tied up underneath a cooking piece of fat pork while the drippings of burning fat scorched his bare flesh. Another torture less "painful" would involve catching a slave stealing and have him beaten up. Murder was so common on his plantation, that Mr. Litch refused to be alone after nightfall. Reason being because of his belief in ghosts. The corrupting power of slavery is shown in this chapter when Mr. Litch Murders slaves as if it were a common thing to do.