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| 19 | 1134 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps there is a practical motivation for such interests. |
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| 19 | 1131 | I think it likely she knew this, for her substitution of the word 'captive' for 'slave' and 'captor' for 'master' suggested it. |
| 19 | 1132 | Many free women know more of the behaviors of slaves, and details of the relationships between them and their masters, than many free men give them credit for knowing. |
| 19 | 1133 | Indeed, many free women, while expressing disinterest in such matters, or disgust at their very thought, tend to be fascinated by them, and inquire eagerly into them. |
| 19 | 1134 | Perhaps there is a practical motivation for such interests. |
| 19 | 1135 | Perhaps they wish to know such things in case they should one day find themselves being pulled from a branding rack, their own flesh marked. |
| 19 | 1136 | To be sure, no free woman knows really what it is to be a slave, for that is known truly only to the slave herself. |
| 19 | 1137 | Similarly, there is much in the relationship between a slave and her master that cannot be known to a free woman, much that she cannot even suspect. |