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| 13 | 574 | View more quotes about others">Others, with coiled wire, with springs and steel teeth, generally designed for the capture of escaped male slaves can be quite cruel. |
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| 13 | 571 | Yet I reminded myself that I was not a free person, but only a domestic animal and thus, presumably, as long as I was docile, and obedient, and perfect in my service, and fully pleasing, I might hope to be spared. |
| 13 | 572 | I do not here, incidentally, discuss the nature of slave traps, as they constitute a different object of discourse. |
| 13 | 573 | Some of these are rather benign devices, with no object more in mind than to discommode a free woman until the hunters arrive and collect her. |
| 13 | 574 | Others, with coiled wire, with springs and steel teeth, generally designed for the capture of escaped male slaves can be quite cruel. |
| 13 | 575 | Smaller, lighter versions of such traps exist for escaped female slaves. |
| 13 | 576 | Within some of these devices, surrounded by the wire and blades, one cannot move without cutting oneself to pieces. |
| 13 | 577 | I had once, in training, been carefully entered into one, and then left there, standing, for more than an hour. |