| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 11 | 1675 | As a View more quotes about slave">slave it seemed to me fitting that my ears would be pierced, and that men would do with me as they wished. |
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| 11 | 1672 | This made me uneasy. |
| 11 | 1673 | If I had truly understood the meaning of ear piercing on this world perhaps I, too, I supposed, might have regarded it with horror, and striven to resist, however meaninglessly, however stupidly, however unavailingly and ineffectually. |
| 11 | 1674 | But I doubted it. |
| 11 | 1675 | As a slave it seemed to me fitting that my ears would be pierced, and that men would do with me as they wished. |
| 11 | 1676 | It was not lost on me, of course, that I was knelt. |
| 11 | 1677 | This was to make it clear, I gathered, that ear piercing was something that was done to slaves. |
| 11 | 1678 | Too, the fellow who had pulled me up to my knees had told me to spread my knees. |