The Beating of Jim

The Beating of Jim, 1835, is taken place in North Carolina in Cameron Plantation. The Cameron Plantation is an important aspect in the reading as there will be letters that will be show different important events that occur during this time. The letters would mainly be focused on Duncan’s salve name Jim. According to the letter, the unsaid rules of conduct at Cameron plantation was the owner have the right to do what they please when the slave is not listening or being defiant. The participates in those rules were Mr. Nichols and the Cameron.

Jim did not really have any rights. He couldn’t stand up himself. In the article, Jim when to Paul and told him about his problem and Paul said,” I told him to return home, and submit himself under all circumstances to his overseer and that I would go over the next day. ”The actions that explain of Jim was that he is a slave and he went to see his owner about his beating, he got from his overseers, which is Nichols. In the article, it mention, “Nichols whipped Jim and at night Jim came over to see Paul. ” The actions that explain Mr. Nichols was he beaten Jim because Jim didn’t want to tell him what his owner have to said. In the article, it mention, Thereupon Nichols uttering some harsh and angry words got hold of a part of a rail and as Jim was walking off from him, his back turned, he gave him the blow, which brought him to the ground!” The actions that explain the Camerons was to inform Paul’s father that their overseers, Mr. Nichols killed one of their slave named Jim.

The series of events described matter to the rest of the slave community at the plantation The people involved, Rebecca Cameron and Paul Cameron see themselves as guilty person giving empathy. In the article, she wrote, “"I am truly concerned my beloved Husband to have such distressing intelligence to communicate to you. ” In the article, he mention, “ And tho he has ever been a bad and ungovernable slave, I have ever felt a great regard to him, in as much as he was your first servant and the gift of my grandfather. ” Nichols has no empathy to Jim death because he is an overseer and they are not important.