| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 25 | 522 | They were disoriented, View more quotes about confused">confused, fearfully intimidated. |
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| 25 | 519 | Ellen suddenly became terribly frightened. |
| 25 | 520 | She was going to be sold, sold! Her shoulder stung from the blow she had received. |
| 25 | 521 | All the girls, hurried as they had been, awkwardly, rushed, stumbling, were now kneeling huddled together, chained, frightened. |
| 25 | 522 | They were disoriented, confused, fearfully intimidated. |
| 25 | 523 | In this way there would be no doubt of their slavehood on the block, of their vulnerability and terror, nor of their eagerness to obey the auctioneer's slightest suggestion or gesture. |
| 25 | 524 | They would be instantly, unquestioningly obedient; there would be no doubt in the buyers' minds of the docility, the piteous, abject servility, of the merchandise. |
| 25 | 525 | So, thought Ellen, it seems that there may be yet another reason, other than time, and impatience, for rushing the chains forward, weeping, crying out, begging for mercy, stumbling, under blows, herding them so cruelly with jabs and blows to the block, to their sale, that we may show ourselves as frightened slaves before masters! But Ellen's understanding of this, if understanding it was, did in no way diminish its effectiveness on her. |