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| 12 | 499 | It View more quotes about seemed">seemed incomprehensible to me, of course, that a free woman, for example, might be so addressed. |
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| 12 | 496 | "What occurred here? Who was about? How did it happen? Speak, female, speak, woman!" I was startled that he has spoken to her in terms of her sex, simply, regardless of her condition, that she was so obviously bond. |
| 12 | 497 | It was clearly the voice of one of the master sex addressing one of the slave sex, bluntly, directly, intending to be told the truth. |
| 12 | 498 | I suspected, this unsettling me, he would have spoken identically even were she free. |
| 12 | 499 | It seemed incomprehensible to me, of course, that a free woman, for example, might be so addressed. |
| 12 | 500 | But what was a free woman but a slave without a master? How stood the conventions of society, the habits, rules, customs, and such, against the biological facts of an uncontaminated nature? Surely he spoke to her in a way that went far beyond the trivia of tunics and collars, brands and chains. |
| 12 | 501 | What do they do, such things, the collar, bracelets, and such, other than confirm her womanhood upon a female? To be sure, slaves, as free woman are not, are well advised to answer quickly and truthfully any queries of a free man. |
| 12 | 502 | There are many ways to encourage speech in a reluctant slave. |