In one of the first exchanges of Matthew Lopez’
The Whipping Man, former slave owner Caleb DeLeon begins shouting orders to former slave Simon – fetch this, fetch that. It is days after the end of the Civil War, and Simon winces, surprised that his former master has not yet grasped the new order of things: namely, that he can’t give orders any more. But Simon complies anyway, giving a glimpse of how complex the relationships between former master and slave must have been in the early days of the post-war South.
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