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| 19 | 1135 | View more quotes about perhaps">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. |
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| 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. |
| 19 | 1138 | She is likely to learn these things, so precious, intimate and secret, so profound, wonderful and rewarding, so fulfilling, to her astonishment and revelation, only when the collar is on her own throat. |