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| 12 | 404 | I am not View more quotes about certain">certain of the explanation of this seemingly unreasoning, inexplicable hatred. |
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| 12 | 401 | "Yes," laughed the girl, delightedly. |
| 12 | 402 | For some reason, or reasons, as I have earlier noted or suggested, free women hate female slaves. |
| 12 | 403 | They are often quite cruel to them, even to those whom they themselves own. |
| 12 | 404 | I am not certain of the explanation of this seemingly unreasoning, inexplicable hatred. |
| 12 | 405 | Perhaps they hate the slave for her beauty, for her joy, her truth, her perfections, her desirability, her happiness. |
| 12 | 406 | At the root of their hatred, perhaps, lies their own unhappiness and lack of fulfillment, their envy of the slave, joyful in her rightful place in nature. |
| 12 | 407 | In any event, this attack on the part of the free woman, which happily had been only verbal, as they often are not, and the abused slave in any event dare not protest or object, as they are at the mercy of free persons, was in its way a profound compliment. |