Seed to Harvest: The Complete Patternist Series (Patternist, #1-4)

by Octavia E. Butler

America with an infant to care for, she would learn submissiveness.

“At least we cannibals are honest about what we do,” Doro continued. “We don’t pretend as your slavers do to be acting for the benefit of our victims’ souls. We don’t tell ourselves we’ve caught them to teach them civilized religion.”