Status Updates From The Bondswoman's Narrative

"Those especially who are too weak and silly, and negligent to manage their own private affairs have uniformly an itching fancy to dabble in the public business."

"If freedom implies starvation or death, it is not my fault, but their misfortune."

"Dead, your Excellency, the President of this Republic. Dead, grave senators who grow eloquent over pensions and army wrongs. Dead ministers of religion, who prate because poor men without a moment's leisure on other days presume to read the newspapers on Sunday, yet who wink at, or approve of laws that occasion such scenes as this."

"More than one of these favorites gave birth to children and the little ones were caressed and petted by their father with all imaginable fondness."

"...that black for the time being should be a fashionable style."

"...the deserved punishment of an act of vanity."

"Slaves generally are far preferable to wives in husbands' eyes."

"because it is universally considered a more difficult matter to retain affection than to win it."