The animal is old now, it has been working under the sun and whips for more than 40 years. Years ago they cut off his tongue, it no longer sees well, and does not have the same strength as before.
For not producing enough, it was condemned to another brutal beating of lashes, but it has been locked in the cell for two days and tied up waiting for his execution. It is dying of hunger, his legs and arms hurt and tingle, for they are without blood circulation. It feels cramps and terrible back pain.
The animal worth so little that they can forget him there for enough time so that he will simply die without anyone remembering him.
It's not worth a damn.
The slave cries and moans loudly, trying to get someone's attention. It prefers to die under the lashes or exhausted by heavy labor, than die there of hunger, thirst, and gangrene simply because he has been forgotten tied up in his cell.