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| 11 | 19 | The View more quotes about female">female slaves, like the men, were unclothed, and wore collars; their collars, however, were not the typical locked collar of the female slave but, since they were only in the iron pens, a narrow band of iron, with a number, hammered about their neck. |
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| 11 | 16 | The only sanitation facility was an open metal mesh, supported by close-set horizontal bars, in the bottom of the cages, beneath which, some five feet below, was a cement floor, washed down and cleaned by slaves once daily. |
| 11 | 17 | There was a feed trough at one side of each cage and a low watering pan on the other, both filled by means of tubes from the catwalk. |
| 11 | 18 | The cages of female slaves were mixed in with those of the male slaves, presumably on no other basis than what cage happened to be empty at a given time. |
| 11 | 19 | The female slaves, like the men, were unclothed, and wore collars; their collars, however, were not the typical locked collar of the female slave but, since they were only in the iron pens, a narrow band of iron, with a number, hammered about their neck. |
| 11 | 20 | I noted that the females tended to remain near the center of their cage. |
| 11 | 21 | Their food and water areas were protected from the wall of bars shared with the next cage, which might contain male slaves, by a heavy iron mesh rather like that of the flooring, riveted by hammer to the bars. |
| 11 | 22 | Sometimes I supposed a girl might wander too close to the bars and be seized, but, because of the bars, little could be done with her. |