Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Douglass says that Mr. Gore was cruel, artful, and obdurate. What are the examples that Douglass gives for each of these adjectives about Mr. Gore?

only in the chapters 4 to 6

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He was cruel enough to inflict the severest punishment, artful enough to descend to the lowest trickery, and obdurate enough to be insensible to the voice of a reproving conscience. He was, of all the overseers, the most dreaded by the slaves.

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass