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De massa call me and tell me, Woman, I's pay big money for you, and I's done dat ''cause I wants you to raise me chillum. I's put you to live with Rufus for dat purpose. Now, if you doesn't want whippin' at de stake, you do what I wants. I thinks bout Massa buyin' me off de block and savin' me from bein' separated from my folks, and bout bein' whipped at de stake. Dere it am. What am I to do?

So asks Rose Williams of Bell County, Texas, whose long-ago forced cohabitation remains as bitter at age 90 as when she was just a ingnoramus chile of 16. In all her years after freedom, she never had any desire to marry. Firsthand accounts of female slaves are few. The best-known narratives of slavery are those of Frederick Douglass and other men. Even the photos most people have seen are of male slaves chained and beaten. What we know of the lives of female slaves comes mainly from the fiction of authors like Toni Morrison and movies likeGone With the Wind

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      Publisher: John F Blair Publisher
      Publication Date: 16/02/2006
      ISBN13: 9780895873231, 978-0895873231
      ISBN10: 0895873230

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      De massa call me and tell me, Woman, I's pay big money for you, and I's done dat ''cause I wants you to raise me chillum. I's put you to live with Rufus for dat purpose. Now, if you doesn't want whippin' at de stake, you do what I wants. I thinks bout Massa buyin' me off de block and savin' me from bein' separated from my folks, and bout bein' whipped at de stake. Dere it am. What am I to do?

      So asks Rose Williams of Bell County, Texas, whose long-ago forced cohabitation remains as bitter at age 90 as when she was just a ingnoramus chile of 16. In all her years after freedom, she never had any desire to marry. Firsthand accounts of female slaves are few. The best-known narratives of slavery are those of Frederick Douglass and other men. Even the photos most people have seen are of male slaves chained and beaten. What we know of the lives of female slaves comes mainly from the fiction of authors like Toni Morrison and movies likeGone With the Wind

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