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This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.

Lalita Tademy Cane River
This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.

That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.

Lawrence Hill The Book of...
That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

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