Horse keepers were constantly punished and whipped for never meeting the standards of care set by the slave master. Having a thousand slaves meant that some of them never met the slave master. Fredrick Douglas remembers a time when the slave master was riding through his fields on horseback and stopped a slave to ask him what he thought of the slave master. If the answer was negative, he would remember their name to sell them later. Slaves who were not loyal were sold quickly in order to maintain order among the slaves and keep them silent mentally, physically and mentally.