The way people of color were treated in the early 1900's is very different than today. The way that situations were handled were different as well. In the short story "The Lynching of Jube Benson" and the novel The Sport of the Gods, the black servants were perhaps the best you could find. They cared for their masters as if they were family and would do anything for them. Unfortunately, in those days the masters never fully felt the same way.
In "The Lynching of Jube Benson", the doctors servant is thought to have murdered his wife. In the Sports of the Gods, Berry the main servant is thought to have stolen hundreds of dollars from his masters younger brother. Neither were truly guilty of the crimes in which they are being charged for, but their masters didnt care to take the time to figure that out. As soon as any little bit of evidence was found that made the servant look suspicious, they jumped on them without even hearing them out. To do something like that, they were obviously not as fond of them as the servants were to their masters.
However, in the short story, the Doc eventually finds out that he was wrong and knows he has to live with what he did for the rest of his life. What he did was wrong and out of anger. In the novel, when they found out that the servant was innocent, they were quick to hide the truth due to the fact that it would make his brother look bad and ruin his family name. After all the black servants had done for them over the years of working, they were wronged and see no justice. Both stories seem to be very similar in the way the dialogue is written and I could see it being from the same author. Many similarites and several differences that make the stories great in their own ways. Both express the hardships that servants of color had to endure even when it was never their fault.
