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| 26 | 1897 | They would have been View more quotes about considered">considered of value, they would have been desired, they may have been stalked, they may have been sought, they would have been captured, and stripped, and assessed, and kept. |
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| 26 | 1894 | "I do not think you, personally, would have to worry about that," I smiled. |
| 26 | 1895 | "Too," she said, angrily, "suppose you were a slave girl, and you were chained naked against a wall with other girls, and they begin to talk, this one and that one telling how she was captured by so-and-so, in such-and-such a place, and so on. |
| 26 | 1896 | Most, initially, presumably, would have been taken as free women by slavers or soldiers. |
| 26 | 1897 | They would have been considered of value, they would have been desired, they may have been stalked, they may have been sought, they would have been captured, and stripped, and assessed, and kept. |
| 26 | 1898 | They may have been led from cities in triumph as exquisite prizes, in slave lines as naked, luscious, collared loot, and then what would you have to say? That no one had found you pretty enough, or interesting enough, or desirable enough, to take you and bring you in for money? That you had to call upon a slaver yourself, and explicitly call yourself to his attention, that you has not been noticed until then? Imagine how difficult it might be under such circumstances to live with the girls. |
| 26 | 1899 | Imagine how they would laugh at you! Would one not almost die from mortification?" I laughed. |
| 26 | 1900 | "What is so funny?" she asked. |