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| 15 | 491 | And, should her ears be View more quotes about pierced">pierced, it is almost certain she will, sooner or later, be re-enslaved. |
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| 15 | 488 | Sometimes a girl, winning love, is freed, perhaps to bear the children of a former master. |
| 15 | 489 | But the freedom of a former slave girl is always a somewhat tenuous thing. |
| 15 | 490 | Her thigh still bears the brand. |
| 15 | 491 | And, should her ears be pierced, it is almost certain she will, sooner or later, be re-enslaved. |
| 15 | 492 | It is hard for men to leave a woman who can be a good slave girl free. |
| 15 | 493 | She may always dread, if she wishes, that in the night men will come again for her, hooding her, and carrying her to a distant city, to be again put on the block of a steaming market, that once again her throat will be encircled by a steel collar and that she will kneel at the feet of a new master. |
| 15 | 494 | Slavery also, of course, encompasses the ownership of male slaves, for which there is less precedent in nature. |