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| 9 | 45 | But View more quotes about cecily">Cecily was highly intelligent, and she would learn quickly, if only under a free woman's switch. |
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| 9 | 42 | She seemed to believe that since the slave and the free woman were both women that there would be a sympathy, an understanding, a rapport, between them. |
| 9 | 43 | She knew so little. |
| 9 | 44 | The free woman was a person; the slave was a property, an animal, and an animal which, aside from matters of social advancement, position, wealth, and status, was commonly preferred a thousand times by men to a free woman. |
| 9 | 45 | But Cecily was highly intelligent, and she would learn quickly, if only under a free woman's switch. |
| 9 | 46 | Her safety, of course, would lie with men, and masters, who would to the extent practical, given a free woman's status and prerogatives, protect her. |
| 9 | 47 | We were housed in a small, thatched hut. |
| 9 | 48 | The door of the hut was open, but it might be fastened, when one wished, with thongs. |