Even more significant, he linked it to the collective experience of slaves for whom bondage, however crushing, was always responded to in human terms: as a trial of the soul as well as the body.

• 然而决定性的，更为典型的例子，即他将自传与不断积累的对奴隶的奴役相联系，总是与人群的尊严相关：正如对身体一样，作为对精神的审判。