Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Douglass says that Mr. Gore was "cruel, artful, and obdurate." What are the examples that Douglass gives for each of these adjectives about Mr. Gore?

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Mr. Austin Gore is the overseer at Colonel Lloyd's plantation when Douglass was a young child, Gore was "proud, ambitious, and persevering" (24) as well as "artful, cruel, and obdurate" (24). He was a young man but quite serious and humorless. He was merciless in his treatment of the slaves, tolerating no critique of his behavior. Douglass saw him as a savage barbarian and a master of deceit.