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The Slave Driver [interlude]
The Slave Driver [interlude]

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Explanatory Notes The Slave Driver [interlude]
  illustration] The financier Jay Gould served as the model for the slave driver. In one of the copies of the book he annotated, Beard commented, “I wanted a face which showed a high order of intelligence, but was absolutely heartless, cold brutally and cruel. I found such a face among my photographs of prominent people and used it” (Yale). See the introduction, page 17.