But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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- There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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