Uncle Tom's Cabin
Why does Marie want to send unruly slaves to the calaboose?
chapter 16
chapter 16
Marie believes that her servants are spoiled and "have their own way." She thinks that they should be sent away and whipped until they've been taught a lesson. She's complaining that their slaves are disciplined at home, unlike other slaveowners who send their slaves away to be broken.
"So, you just see," she continued, "what you've got to manage. A household without any rule; where servants have it all their own way, do what they please, and have what they please, except so far as I, with my feeble health, have kept up government. I keep my cowhide about, and sometimes I do lay it on; but the exertion is always too much for me. If St. Clare would only have this thing done as others do -- "
"And how's that?"
"Why, send them to the calaboose, or some of the other places to be flogged. That's the only way. If I wasn't such a poor, feeble piece, I believe I should manage with twice the energy that St. Clare does."
Uncle Tom's Cabin/ Chapter 16