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| 15 | 279 | The View more quotes about usual">usual punishment for a girl's second attempt at escape is hamstringing, the severing of the tendons behind the knees. |
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| 15 | 276 | Other factors which might be noted are the support of the society for slavery, the absence of a place to run, so to speak, and the relentlessness with which slaves are commonly sought. |
| 15 | 277 | Other factors are such things as the distinctive garb of the slave, the encirclement of her neck with a collar and the fact that her body is marked with a brand. |
| 15 | 278 | The best that a slave can commonly hope for is that she might fall into the power of a new master. |
| 15 | 279 | The usual punishment for a girl's second attempt at escape is hamstringing, the severing of the tendons behind the knees. |
| 15 | 280 | This does not completely immobilize the girl, for she may still, for example, drag herself about by her hands. |
| 15 | 281 | Such girls are sometimes used as beggars, distributed about a city by wagon in the morning, and then picked up again at night, with whatever earnings they may have managed to obtain during the day. |
| 15 | 282 | "You will not beat me though, will you?" wheedled the girl. |