In many moments in the text, Mary Prince and the slaves are often described as cattle or sheep and the owners or masters as the butchers. The floggings would involve a slave tied up from the wrists similar to an animal at a butcher shop where cattle are hung from the ceilings. This gives the reader a very graphic detail of how the slaves were treated and beaten. This also occurred at auctions when the slaves were sold off like cattle. They were naked and forced to rotate all around to be examined and sold off to the highest bidder. Mary Prince states that it wasn’t going from one master to another when she was sold off but going from one butcher to another. These personal experiences and descriptive details show a first person view of how the slaves were treated worse than the cattle and pigs on the farm.