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| 1 | 295 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps surprisingly we were also taught domestic tasks. |
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| 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. |
| 1 | 298 | Yet these tasks can be precious for us, as they are necessary and give us ways of pleasing our masters. |