Tom is the oldest of five children. his parents both work at low-paying, unskilled jobs. they are not home regularly and when they are verbally fight; at times, the fights escalate to physical aggression. tom and his brothers and sisters have witnessed the violence on occasion and have also been direct victims of harsh discipline and physical abuse. who in tom's family may suffer the most due to resource dilution? tom the middle child the youngest sibling his parents

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the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.