However, slaves are like other people, and imbibe similar prejudices.

They are apt to think _their condition_ better than that of others.

Many, under the influence of this prejudice, think their own masters are better than the masters of other slaves; and this, too, in some cases, when the very reverse is true.

Indeed, it is not uncommon for slaves even to fall out and quarrel among themselves about the relative kindness of their masters, contending for the superior goodness of his own over that of others.

At the very same time, they mutually execrate their masters, when viewed separately.