Harry had never been whipped, and had always said that he would die rather than submit to it.
He made no secret of his detestation of the overseer.

While most of the slaves took off their hats, with cowering submission, in his presence, Harry always refused to do so.

He never spoke to him except in a brief answer to his questions.

Master George, who knew, and dreaded the indomitable spirit of the man, told the overseer, before he left the plantation, to beware how he attempted to punish him.

But, the habits of tyranny in which Huckstep had so long indulged, had accustomed him to abject submission, on the part of his subjects; and he could not endure this upright and unbroken manliness.