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| 6 | 623 | I did View more quotes about know">know that it was not unusual for slaves to be confined at night. |
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| 6 | 620 | We were properties! We were valuables, like money, or dogs or horses. |
| 6 | 621 | Indeed, by some men, we might even be regarded as treasures. |
| 6 | 622 | We might then, like other animals or goods, be subject to theft! We might be stolen! Thus it made sense that, if for no other reason, we might occasionally find ourselves kept, in effect, under lock and key. |
| 6 | 623 | I did know that it was not unusual for slaves to be confined at night. |
| 6 | 624 | In the house we had been locked in our kennels. |
| 6 | 625 | Too, I had heard that at night it was not unusual for beautiful female slaves to be chained at the foot of their master's couch, fastened there to a slave ring, the chain usually running to a manacle on their left ankle or a collar on their neck. |
| 6 | 626 | The fact that I now realized I was subject to theft frightened me, but it, too, like many other things, seemed an attachment of my condition, a simple consequence of what I was. |