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| 16 | 911 | They are still only View more quotes about slaves">slaves, such as we, thought Ellen. |
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| 16 | 908 | Then, mercifully, the Cosian dragged the lead girl in the coffle away from the shelf and began to conduct her, her chain sisters perforce behind her, through the crowd. |
| 16 | 909 | Ellen lifted her head a little. |
| 16 | 910 | One of the girls in the coffle, she who was last on the chain, or slaver's necklace, turned about to cast a last contemptuous glance at the shelf, but the guardsman behind her struck her a sharp, stinging blow with the flat of his hand below the small of her back, which resounded throughout the market, and she, sobbing with humiliation, with a jangle of chain, hurried forward. |
| 16 | 911 | They are still only slaves, such as we, thought Ellen. |
| 16 | 912 | At various times, in her training, and after her training, when returning to her cell, kennel or cage, one of the guards had given her a similar slap. |
| 16 | 913 | Such attentions, of course, hurry a girl on. |
| 16 | 914 | Perhaps that is their ostensible purpose. |