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“This was the happiest period of my life; for I was too young to understand rightly my condition as a slave, and too thoughtless and full of spirits to look forward to the days of toil and sorrow.”—On life in the Williams household “I was soon surrounded by strange men, who examined and handled me in the same manner that a butcher would a calf or a lamb he was about to purchase, and who talked about my shape and size in like words — as if I could no more understand their meaning than the dumb beasts, I was then put up for sale.”—At the slave market where she was sold to Captain Ingham “Poor Hetty, my fellow slave, was very kind to me, and I used to call her my Aunt, but she led a most miserable life, and her death was hastened (at least the slaves all believed and said so,) by the dreadful chastisement she received from my master during her pregnancy.”—On life in the Ingham household |
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