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| 1 | 294 | The View more quotes about slave">slave is to be lovely, graceful, unobtrusive, and obedient. |
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| 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. |
| 1 | 296 | Most masters have at most one slave, and she must keep the domicile for him. |
| 1 | 297 | Accordingly we were taught a number of homely tasks, shopping, cooking, cleaning, laundering, ironing, sewing, the care of leather, and such, tasks fit for us, slaves, the least of women. |