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| 80 | 180 | A View more quotes about common">common justification of slave garmenture, though surely not the only one, nor the primary one, is that it is supposed to make the slave the desiderated object of raiders, thus supposedly diverting attention from precious, priceless free women. |
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| 80 | 177 | Does she, enclosed in those ornate blockades, wonder from time to time what it might be to feel a man's hands upon those stiff enwrapments, and wonder what it might be to feel them ripped from her, abruptly, imperiously, and feel the sudden flash of air upon lovely, startled skin? Does she wonder what it would be to be a whole female, loving her sex, and rejoicing in it? In any event the bodies of slaves are commonly well, if not entirely, exposed. |
| 80 | 178 | They are, after all, are they not, the bodies of animals? The garmenture of the slave is, in effect, another of her freedoms, though she may well regard it with some trepidation, realizing how well, how boldly and excitingly, it reveals her to men, and her vulnerability. |
| 80 | 179 | The garmenture makes it clear what she is, property. |
| 80 | 180 | A common justification of slave garmenture, though surely not the only one, nor the primary one, is that it is supposed to make the slave the desiderated object of raiders, thus supposedly diverting attention from precious, priceless free women. |
| 80 | 181 | Some slaves have been stolen several times, from one city, or caravan, or another. |
| 80 | 182 | Many are the cages whose bars they have grasped, many are the chains they have felt on their necks, many are the blocks from which they have been auctioned. |
| 80 | 183 | In any event, in slave garmenture, the slave, and others, are never in any doubt that she is a female, and that she has that remarkable gift of nature to males, the female body. |