we see this in the life of a georgian, a man named david snelling. and david snelling was born into the slave owning class. but his parents died when he was young. and he was adopted by one of his uncles, his mother's brother. and he found out right away that his uncle hated his dead father. and to get revenge on the dead father, young david was forced to work in the cotton fields along side slaves. he's a white boy. and his uncle made him work in the fields along side slaves. and he doesn't go to college, which his cousins did, he doesn't have any of the privileges that he was born into. he's a farm hand. and he comes to know slaves as human beings, comes to sympathize with them, he becomes a very strong critic of slavery and when the civil war broke out he ran away from home and he served in the union army. so he could fight against slavery. now that's very unusual. that didn't happen too often. what happened to david snelling. one thing that puzzled me. what time about the neighbors. didn't the neighbors in that community in georgia think that was