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| 6 | 611 | Here men were not tolerant of attempted escapes. |
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| 6 | 608 | I was not View more quotes about interested">interested in running away. |
| 6 | 609 | I had learned the penalties for such things. |
| 6 | 610 | I did not wish to be whipped, or hamstrung, or have my feet cut off, or be fed to sleen. |
| 6 | 611 | Here men were not tolerant of attempted escapes. |
| 6 | 612 | They did not have the patience for them. |
| 6 | 613 | Here, for women such as I, escape was not an option; here, for all practical purposes, it was simply impossible. |
| 6 | 614 | At best, we might hope, against all hopes, at great personal risk, even mortal risk, it seemed, to escape from the chains of one master into those of another, in which case, of course, we would be a "caught slave," a modality that would be almost certain to assure us of the cruelest of treatments and the harshest of confinements, followed, perhaps, if our captor pleased, by a return to our original master. |