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| 1 | 292 | How we, View more quotes about slaves">slaves, dread and fear them! How they hate us, how cruel they are to us! Who is to protect us from them, save our masters? Please, Masters, protect us! Oh, Masters, please protect us! We learned, too, personal deportment, deference, and suitable diction. |
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| 1 | 289 | The life of the female slave is a life of vitality and awareness, an awakened life, a sentient life, a sensuous life, a so-much-alive life! To be sure, clad as we were, when clad, it is easier to be aware of such things. |
| 1 | 290 | In more than one way, one is more exposed to the world, to nature, and the reality in which one exists. |
| 1 | 291 | Imagine the contrast between us, in the streets, clad as we might be, in our brief tunics and collars, and the scorning free women, resplendent in their robes and veils. |
| 1 | 292 | How we, slaves, dread and fear them! How they hate us, how cruel they are to us! Who is to protect us from them, save our masters? Please, Masters, protect us! Oh, Masters, please protect us! We learned, too, personal deportment, deference, and suitable diction. |
| 1 | 293 | All free men are addressed as "Master," of course, and all free women as "Mistress". |
| 1 | 294 | The slave is to be lovely, graceful, unobtrusive, and obedient. |
| 1 | 295 | Perhaps surprisingly we were also taught domestic tasks. |