For a few minutes, and for a few minutes only, was his faith in the helpless reality of his wife's sickness shaken; but faith and pity and indignation were united as she told of her mistreatment and how she had been outraged and her whole character questioned by that "brutal doctor," who talked to her as no one had ever dared before.
"Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness"
Robert S. Carroll
Finally, slaves could be freed by the courts as the result of mistreatment by their masters.
"The Black Experience in America The Immigrant Heritage of America"
Norman Coombs
Hard tales of cruelty and mistreatment of the chained freemen are told, but the county authorities were deaf until the free-labor market was nearly ruined by wholesale migration.
"The Souls of Black Folk"
W. E. B. Du Bois